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 Brown County comprised 52.5% boys, with girls representing the remaining 47.5%.
Data also showed that white students made up 83.7% of the student body, the largest percentage in Brown County schools, followed by Hispanic students with 13%, 1.7% multiracial students, 0.5% American Indian students, 0.5% Asian students, 0.4% Black students, 0.1% Hawaiian Pacific Islander students and 0.1% Other Indigenous Peoples students.
New Ulm High School had the highest enrollment among Brown County's 11 schools in the 2023-24 school year, welcoming 712 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Ulm High School | 706 | 712 | 0.8% |
| Jefferson Elementary | 619 | 624 | 0.8% |
| New Ulm Middle School | 648 | 609 | -6% |
| Sleepy Eye Elementary | 338 | 349 | 3.3% |
| Springfield Elementary | 302 | 300 | -0.7% |
| Springfield Secondary | 289 | 299 | 3.5% |
| Sleepy Eye Sec. | 251 | 247 | -1.6% |
| Washington Learning Center | 188 | 190 | 1.1% |
| River Bend Area Learning Center | 63 | 60 | -4.8% |
| Comfrey Secondary | 60 | 56 | -6.7% |
| Comfrey Elementary | 55 | 49 | -10.9% |
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