ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY

Set in ULEN, Minnesota, ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY is a close-knit senior high, part of ULEN-HITTERDAL PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. It instructs 158 students across grades 7 through 12. That puts it 57% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

ULEN-HITTERDAL PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 302 students. ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY is one of those campuses.

Demographically, ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY shows that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Native American. By comparison, Clay County as a whole is about 85% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 33% of students at ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -9.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Clay County put the typical household earns roughly $81,172 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Clay County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,470 students), ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ULEN-HITTERDAL ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.7%.

ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. ULEN-HITTERDAL SECONDARY's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 137 (now 158). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 81% to 75%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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