ROTHSAY SECONDARY

Set in ROTHSAY, Minnesota, ROTHSAY SECONDARY is a micro-enrollment high school, run under ROTHSAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 140 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 62% below the state mean of about 371.

ROTHSAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 334 students; ROTHSAY SECONDARY is among them.

On demographics, ROTHSAY SECONDARY reports that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Wilkin County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ROTHSAY SECONDARY has 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at ROTHSAY SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Wilkin County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROTHSAY SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.3%, the actual is 40.3%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Wilkin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,410 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Wilkin County runs 8 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,114 students), of which ROTHSAY SECONDARY is one.

Nearest neighbor: ROTHSAY ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROTHSAY SECONDARY at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 48.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Trend over the last 7 years. ROTHSAY SECONDARY's enrollment has expanded 21% since 2018, when it stood at 116 (now 140). Class-load math has loosened: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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