Summary:
Hugo, Minnesota is served by exactly one listed high school: White Bear Transition Plus Program, a grades 11–12 school at 14895 Francesca Ave. N with 51 students, part of the White Bear Lake School District. Because Hugo has only this one high school, there are no in-city peers to compare it against, and its profile is that of a small, specialized transition-focused setting rather than a comprehensive high school.
Within the school, enrollment is very small at 51 students, and the student-teacher ratio is low at 7.6 in 2024–2025. The free/reduced lunch rate is 50.98% for 2024–2025, meaning roughly half the student body is economically disadvantaged, which together with the small size and low ratio may suggest an intensive-support environment. All school-level MCA math and reading proficiency values are shown as “—” because the state suppressed them to protect student privacy, so school performance on those exams is unknown — not zero and not evidence of weakness. School-level completion data for 2022–2023 show a 70.0% graduation rate and an exact 0.0% dropout rate; those figures come from an earlier year than the district and state numbers and should not be read as a direct current comparison.
The broader White Bear Lake School District performs above Minnesota averages in every available MCA comparison — all-grade math, all-grade reading, 11th-grade math, and 10th-grade reading — by margins ranging from +3.7 to +6.8 percentage points, with the largest gap in 10th-grade reading. District completion measures are also stronger than the state’s, with a 93.9% graduation rate versus 84.9% statewide and a 1.2% dropout rate versus 4.2%. The district ranks 197 of 458 districts, in the 57th percentile with 3 stars — above the median but not top-tier.
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