SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY

Set in SAUK CENTRE, Minnesota, SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY is a roomy four-year high school, one of the schools within SAUK CENTRE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It educates 597 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 61% bigger than the state mean of about 371.

SAUK CENTRE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,104 students. SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY is one of those campuses.

On demographics, SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%); the rest looks like 11% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Stearns County's rate of about 44%.

After controlling for student poverty, SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.0%, the actual is 37.9%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Stearns County shows median household income runs about $77,066, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY is one.

The closest other public school is Sauk Centre Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SAUK CENTRE SECONDARY's enrollment has rose 13% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 597). The White share of enrollment fell from 94% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

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