page_title: Hutchinson, Minnesota
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Hutchinson, Minnesota / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Hutchinson Exterior
context_page_description: Hutchinson is the largest city in McLeod County, Minnesota, United States, and lies along the South Fork of the Crow River. The population was 14,178 at the 2010 census.
context_section_description: Hutchinson is home to a campus of Ridgewater College, a comprehensive community and technical college (another campus is in Willmar, Minnesota).  The original use of the campus was for an Area Vocational Technical Institute.  The Vo-Tech was merged with a similar institute in Willmar, and ultimately the Willmar Community College was joined to the two Vo-Techs to form Ridgewater College, a member of the MnSCU system.  Although begun as a technical institute, since the creation of Ridgewater the Hutchinson campus has shown a steady increase in the number of "transfer" (versus "technical") programs, faculty, and students.  From 2004 to 2006, significant remodeling included the installation of new facilities for the school's nursing programs, plus new biology, chemistry, and physics laboratories.  A notable and unique technical program on the Hutchinson campus is Nondestructive Testing.
  Including the New Century Charter School, there are five public schools. The school names and grades for Independent School District #423 are as follows: West Elementary (Pre-1), Park Elementary (2-5), Hutchinson Middle School (6-8), and Hutchinson High School (9-12). Private schools in the city include Maplewood Academy.
  Immanuel Lutheran School is a Christian Pre-K-8 school of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Hutchinson.
caption: Ridgewater College
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