RUSH CITY SECONDARY

RUSH CITY SECONDARY operates as a medium-sized high school in RUSH CITY, Minnesota, one of the schools within RUSH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 391 students spanning grades 7 through 12.

RUSH CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 805 students; RUSH CITY SECONDARY is among them.

Demographically, RUSH CITY SECONDARY records that nearly all students (85%) are White; the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting RUSH CITY SECONDARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RUSH CITY SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.6%; this one delivers 39.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Chisago County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $99,400 per year, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. RUSH CITY SECONDARY is one of 27 public schools in Chisago County (combined enrollment of about 7,668 students).

Nearest neighbor: C.E. JACOBSON ELEMENTARY, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around RUSH CITY SECONDARY. On composite proficiency, RUSH CITY SECONDARY comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RUSH CITY SECONDARY has stayed largely flat, going from 389 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 93% to 85%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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