Pillager Senior High School

Pillager Senior High School is a medium-sized secondary school in PILLAGER, Minnesota, run under PILLAGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 370 students in grades 9 through 12.

PILLAGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,324 students; Pillager Senior High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pillager Senior High School lists that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Pillager Senior High School logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Cass County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pillager Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Cass County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,874 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Cass County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,570 students), Pillager Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PILLAGER ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pillager Senior High School comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 25%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 370 in 2025.

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