Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz
Willie Jett Commissioner of Education Minnesota Department of Education | Office of Gov. Tim Walz
In terms of gender distribution, the student body in Lincoln County comprised 50.9% boys, with girls representing the remaining 49.1%.
Data also showed that white students made up 91.6% of the student body, the largest percentage in Lincoln County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 4.9%, 1.4% multiracial students, 1.1% American Indian students, 0.5% Black students, 0.2% Hawaiian Pacific Islander students, 0.2% Asian students and 0.1% Other Indigenous Peoples students.
RTR Secondary School had the highest enrollment among Lincoln County's seven schools in the 2023-24 school year, welcoming 375 students.
Minnesota's educational system, the 10th largest in the United States, serves over 869,000 students across 2,709 institutions. As of 2024, the student-to-teacher ratio in the state’s public schools is 1:16, slightly worse than the national average of 1:15.
Meanwhile, data from the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveals that Minnesota fourth and eighth graders performed mostly above the national average in math, their scores suggest a slight decline from previous years, particularly in reading.
| School name | Total enrollment in 2022-23 | Total enrollment in 2023-24 | % change |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTR Secondary School | 359 | 375 | 4.5% |
| RTR Elementary School | 261 | 262 | 0.4% |
| Lake Benton Elementary | 116 | 111 | -4.3% |
| Hendricks Elementary | 98 | 88 | -10.2% |
| Lincoln Elementary - Ivanhoe | 73 | 68 | -6.8% |
| Hendricks High School | 47 | 56 | 19.1% |
| Lake Benton Secondary | 1 | 2 | 100% |
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