High · Special education · Grades 8 to 12
Next Step West (Alden), Alden, MN
Next Step West (Alden) is a public high school in Alden, part of Southern MN Education Consortium. It enrolled 6 students in 2024-25, with 6.0 students per full-time teacher.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 6
- Teachers (FTE)
- 1.0
- Students per teacher
- 6.0
- Grades
- 8 to 12
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 5.8. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
This school6.0
District5.8
Minnesota15.2
United States15.3
School details
- Address
- 155 S Broadway, Alden, MN 56009
- Phone
- (507)857-1160
- District
- Southern MN Education Consortium
- County
- Mower County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Special education
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 270032712734
Related schools
Other high schools in Southern MN Education Consortium
- Smec Alc 70 students
- Next Step East (Grand Meadow) 4 students
- SMEC Credit Recovery 0 students
High schools elsewhere in Alden
- Alden-Conger Secondary Alden-Conger Public School District
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.