High · Alternative · Grades 5 to 12
Smec Alc, Austin, MN
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 70
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.0
- Grades
- 5 to 12
This school's ratio is 8.2 higher than 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.
School details
- Address
- 21697 State Highway 56, Austin, MN 55912
- Phone
- (507)857-1160
- District
- Southern MN Education Consortium
- County
- Mower County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Alternative
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 270032704978
School meals
- Free lunch
- 40
- Reduced-price lunch
- 3
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 4361.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 38Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Southern MN Education Consortium
- Next Step West (Alden) 6 students
- Next Step East (Grand Meadow) 4 students
- SMEC Credit Recovery 0 students
High schools elsewhere in Austin
- Austin Senior High Austin Public School District
- Austin Area Learning Center Austin Public School District
- Austin Online Academy Austin Public School District
- Austin Area Learning Cntr. - Summer Austin 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.