Summary:
The Heron Lake-Okabena School District in Minnesota is home to a single high school, Heron Lake-Okabena Secondary, which serves students in grades 9-12. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Minnesota high schools, with a 1-out-of-5-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating it is performing below average compared to other schools in the state.
Academically, Heron Lake-Okabena Secondary struggles, with significantly lower proficiency rates in Math, Reading, and Science across all grade levels compared to the state average. For example, in 11th grade Math, the school's proficiency rate was 18.18%, compared to the state average of 34.96%. The school's four-year graduation rate of 84.2% is also slightly below the state average, and its dropout rate of 4.4% is higher than the state average.
The school serves a relatively small student population of 158 students, with a high percentage (54.43%) of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a significant economic challenge for the community. While the school's student-to-teacher ratio of 13.5 is slightly lower than the state average, the combination of low academic performance, high economic disadvantage, and small school size suggests that Heron Lake-Okabena Secondary may require additional resources and targeted interventions to improve student outcomes and better support the needs of its student population.
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