WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY

WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY is a secondary school of compact scale in WILLOW RIVER, Minnesota, operated by WILLOW RIVER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, enrolling 205 students in grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 45% below the state mean of about 371.

WILLOW RIVER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 436 students; WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY is among them.

On the student-mix side, WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY records that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 3% Native American, 2% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.4%; this one delivers 36.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Pine County shows the typical household earns roughly $71,146 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Pine County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,657 students), WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WILLOW RIVER ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, WILLOW RIVER SECONDARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 214 students in 2018 compared to 205 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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