Specialized public school district · Mower County
Southern MN Education Consortium, MN: schools, enrollment and spending
Southern MN Education Consortium runs 14 public schools with 181 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 5.8 students per teacher is 9.4 lower than the Minnesota figure of 15.2.
At a glance
- Schools
- 14
- Students
- 181
- Teachers (FTE)
- 31
- Students per teacher
- 5.8
- MN: 15.2 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 21697 State Highway 56, Austin, MN 55912
- Phone
- (507)857-1160
- County
- Mower County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Specialized public school district
- NCES district ID
- 2700327
- State district ID
- MN-526083
- Total staff (FTE)
- 103
- School counselors (FTE)
- 0.0
- School administrators (FTE)
- 0.0
Students per teacher compared
This district5.8
Minnesota15.2
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $7.2 million
- Federal revenue
- $641,000
- State revenue
- $4.5 million
- Local revenue
- $2.1 million
- Total spending
- $7.0 million
- Salaries
- $3.1 million44.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $0
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 8.9%
- State: 62.6%
- Local: 28.6%
Minnesota overall
- Federal: 9.4%
- State: 63.0%
- Local: 27.6%
Schools in Southern MN Education Consortium
By level: 4 high, 7 other, 3 prekindergarten. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| CARDS Program | Other | PK to 12 | 16 | 8.0 |
| Enrich Alden | Other | K to 12 | 17 | 8.5 |
| Enrich GM | Other | K to 12 | 6 | |
| Enrich Kingsland | Other | K to 12 | 10 | 10.0 |
| First Step - Kingsland | Prekindergarten | PK | 9 | 9.0 |
| First Step Adams | Prekindergarten | PK | 9 | 9.0 |
| First Step Alden | Prekindergarten | PK | 3 | 3.0 |
| Next Step East (Grand Meadow) | High | 8 to 12 | 4 | 4.0 |
| Next Step West (Alden) | High | 8 to 12 | 6 | 6.0 |
| Reset | Other | 1 to 12 | 11 | 3.7 |
| Smec Alc | High | 5 to 12 | 70 | 14.0 |
| SMEC Credit Recovery | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Success East | Other | K to 12 | 16 | 5.3 |
| Success West | Other | K to 12 | 4 | 4.0 |
Nearby and related
Other districts in Mower County
- Austin Public School District 5,385 students
- Southland Public School District 520 students
- Grand Meadow Public School District 443 students
- Lyle Public School District 306 students
- Leroy-Ostrander Public Schools 258 students
- Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ 40 students
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.