SPRING GROVE SECONDARY
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 SPRING GROVE SECONDARY
SPRING GROVE SECONDARY is an intimate four-year high school in SPRING GROVE, Minnesota, part of SPRING GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 163 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so SPRING GROVE SECONDARY sits 56% smaller than that benchmark.
SPRING GROVE SECONDARY is one of 2 schools operated by SPRING GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that teaches 349 students overall.
Looking at the student body, SPRING GROVE SECONDARY records that nearly all students (93%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at the economic backdrop, SPRING GROVE SECONDARY reports 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting SPRING GROVE SECONDARY higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Houston County's rate of about 38%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SPRING GROVE SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.6%, the actual is 39.8%, a residual of -9.8 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Houston County) reports that median household earnings sit near $79,825, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Houston County's 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,089 students), SPRING GROVE SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SPRING GROVE ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, SPRING GROVE SECONDARY comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 165 students in 2018 compared to 163 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 97% to 93%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.
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