ST. CLAIR SECONDARY

ST. CLAIR SECONDARY is one of the middle-of-the-pack secondary schools in SAINT CLAIR, Minnesota, one of the schools within ST. CLAIR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 409 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12.

Across the 2 schools in ST. CLAIR PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (820 students total), ST. CLAIR SECONDARY accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, ST. CLAIR SECONDARY records that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 2% multiracial. By comparison, Blue Earth County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Blue Earth County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, ST. CLAIR SECONDARY sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 51.5%; actual is 39.3%, a gap of -12.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Blue Earth County put the typical household earns roughly $74,477 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ST. CLAIR SECONDARY is one of 31 public schools in Blue Earth County (combined enrollment of about 9,034 students).

The closest other public school is ST. CLAIR ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ST. CLAIR SECONDARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.3%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 33%: 307 students in 2018 compared to 409 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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