RED LAKE SECONDARY

Set in RED LAKE, Minnesota, RED LAKE SECONDARY is a mid-sized 9-12 campus, operated by RED LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 377 students across grades 9 through 12.

Within RED LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 1,519 students, RED LAKE SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

On demographics, RED LAKE SECONDARY logs that 99% of students identify as Native American, making the school strongly Native American-majority.

In terms of school funding signals, RED LAKE SECONDARY reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Beltrami County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RED LAKE SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.0%; this one delivers 10.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Beltrami County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,975 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Beltrami County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,088 students), of which RED LAKE SECONDARY is one.

The closest other public school is Red Lake Middle School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RED LAKE SECONDARY ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 6.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 36%: 278 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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