High · Minnesota
Lester Prairie Secondary
Lester Prairie Secondary, a public high school in Lester Prairie, Minnesota: grades 7–12, 222 students, 17.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Lester Prairie Public School Dist..
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 222
- Teachers (FTE)
- 12.7
- Students per teacher
- 17.5
- Grades
- 7–12
- High
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in Minnesota
Median 14.4 · 708 schools compared
More students per teacher than 71% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 60% of high schools in Minnesota
Median 140 · 824 schools compared
Smaller than 67% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Minnesota's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Minnesota: 49%28%proficient
+3.9 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 81% of high schools in Minnesota
Median 40% · 230 high schools compared
69 students tested, grades 7, 8 · Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment III & Minnesota Test of Academic Skills; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Minnesota: 47%39%proficient
−1.1 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 69% of high schools in Minnesota
Median 32% · 229 high schools compared
69 students tested, grades 7, 8 · Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment III & Minnesota Test of Academic Skills; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 7–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Distant rural area
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Lester Prairie Public School Dist..
Location
- Address
- 131 Hickory St N, Lester Prairie, MN 55354
- Phone
- (320)395-2521
- City or town
- Lester Prairie
- County
- McLeod County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 468 | 19.9 | |
SWWC Alternative Learning Center -Alternative | 9–12 | 19 | 9.4 |
Hlww Alternative Learning ProgramAlternative | 9–12 | 24 | 13.0 |
ALP Credit RecoveryAlternative | 9–12 | 0 | — |
| 9–12 | 411 | 18.6 | |
| 9–12 | 337 | 17.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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