NORTHEAST SERVICE COOPERATIVE OLL

5525 EMERALD AVE
MOUNTAIN IRON, MN 55768

High School 9th - 12th

School Overview

The **Northeast Service Cooperative (NESCO)**, located in Mountain Iron, Minnesota, is not a traditional K-12 school building in the conventional sense. Instead, it functions as a **regional educational service agency**. Part of a statewide network of cooperatives, NESCO serves as a collaborative hub designed to provide administrative, technological, and educational support to school districts, cities, counties, and other public entities throughout northeastern Minnesota.

By pooling resources across multiple districts, the cooperative helps smaller schools achieve economies of scale. Their primary focus is to assist local districts in improving operational efficiency, managing health insurance pools, providing professional development for teachers, and coordinating special education or cooperative purchasing programs. In essence, the NESCO facility serves as a vital infrastructure backbone that allows rural and suburban school districts to offer high-quality services and programs that might otherwise be too costly or difficult to manage independently.

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Total Students

0.8

Full-Time Teachers

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Student/Teacher Ratio

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Free/Reduced Lunch

School Location

School Details

Status:	Open
School Level:	High School
School Type:	Regular School
Charter Status:*	Public Non-Charter
Virtual Instruction:	No virtual instruction
Shared Time Status:	No
District:	Region 3 - Northeast Service Co-op
Phone:	(218)741-0750
Grade Range:	9th - 12th
Total Students:	N/A
Full-Time Teachers (FTE):	0.8
Pupil/Teacher Ratio:	N/A
NSLP Participation:¹	No
Qualified Free Lunch:	N/A
Qualified Reduced Lunch:	N/A

* Charter Schools: A public charter school is a publicly funded school that operates independently under a legislative contract (or "charter") with a state, school district, or designated authorizing entity. Charters grant these schools greater operational flexibility over curriculum, staffing, and budgeting in exchange for strict accountability to achieve performance standards established in their charter agreement.

¹ National School Lunch Program (NSLP): The National School Lunch Program is a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools. It provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to eligible children each school day based on household income thresholds or community eligibility options (CEO).

Title I Program Overview: Title I, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) allocates federal financial assistance to local educational agencies and public schools with high percentages of children from low-income families to help ensure that all children meet challenging state academic standards.

Grades Taught

9th

10th

11th

12th