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Sartell Senior High
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sartell Senior High
Sartell Senior High operates as a well-populated high school in SARTELL, Minnesota, operated by Sartell-St. Stephen School District. Current enrollment sits at 1,269 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 242% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
Sartell-St. Stephen School District comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 3,943 students; Sartell Senior High is among them.
On the student-mix side, Sartell Senior High logs that nearly all students (87%) are White; the rest consists of 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Black.
On the income-and-resources front, Sartell Senior High records 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 19% of students at Sartell Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Stearns County's rate of about 44%.
With demographic context factored in, Sartell Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 50.5%, a residual of -4.4 points.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate median household income runs about $77,066, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Stearns County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), Sartell Senior High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Oak Ridge Early Learning Center, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Sartell Senior High operates from a small-town location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Sartell Senior High's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,197 (now 1,269). The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 87% over that span.
Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Sartell Senior High community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
Stearns County at a glance
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