WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH

Set in WORTHINGTON, Minnesota, WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is a well-populated senior high, one of the schools within WORTHINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 1,118 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH sits 201% above that benchmark.

Across the 10 schools in WORTHINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,064 students total), WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%. Beyond that, the school lists 20% White, 8% Asian, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, On paper, WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 32.6%; WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH posts 20.4%, -12.2 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Nobles County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,101 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH is one of 21 public schools in Nobles County (combined enrollment of about 5,284 students).

EARLY CHILDHOOD is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at WORTHINGTON SENIOR HIGH has grew 26%, going from 886 students in 2018 to 1,118 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 64% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 in 2025.

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