Editing Waseca, Minnesota (section)

==Education==
[[File:WasecaHS.jpg|alt=Exterior of the Waseca Junior and Senior High School|left|thumb|Waseca Junior and Senior High School]]
Waseca is home to many schools. The school colors are blue and gold and the school mascot is the bluejay.

Hartley Elementary School has kindergarten through 3rd grade.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hartley Elementary School|url=https://www.waseca.k12.mn.us/hartley|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref>

Waseca Intermediate School (WIS),<ref>{{cite web|title=Waseca Intermediate School|url=https://www.waseca.k12.mn.us/Domain/235|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref> known as Central Immediate School (CIS) until 2012, holds 4th grade through 6th grade.

[[Waseca Junior and Senior High School]] (WJSHS),<ref>{{cite web|title=Waseca Junior and Senior High School|url=https://www.waseca.k12.mn.us/Domain/114|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref> known as Waseca High School (WHS) until 2012, houses grades 7 through 12. WHS served only grades 9 through 12.

Waseca Alternative High School (WALC),<ref>,ref.{{cite web|title=Waseca Junior and Senior High School|url=https://www.waseca.k12.mn.us/Domain/315|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref> also known as the Alternative Learning Center (ALC), has an alternative learning program for students junior-high age through adult.

Sacred Heart School is a private Catholic elementary school, ranging from kindergarten through fourth grade, in Sacred Heart Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sacred Heart School|url=http://sacredheartschoolwaseca.com/|accessdate=July 24, 2022}}</ref> Sacred Heart also has a Montessori preschool. Another preschool, Hansel & Gretel, is at Faith United Methodist Church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faith United Methodist Church|url=http://www.wasecafaithumc.com/|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref> Other preschools include Waseca County Head Start.

Waseca has a charter school, TEAM Academy,<ref>{{cite web|title=TEAM Academy|url=https://www.team.k12.mn.us/|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref> hosting students from kindergarten to grade 6. Until recently, the public schools sponsored TEAM Academy.

Waseca was home to the [[University of Minnesota Waseca]], a two-year technical college that closed in 1992. Most of its former campus continues to operate as the research facility Southern Research and Outreach Center, which includes 926 acres of research-oriented farmland, a community garden, and the Hodgson Memorial Arboretum.<ref name=SROC>{{cite web|title=Southern Research and Outreach Center|url=https://sroc.cfans.umn.edu/|access-date=July 24, 2022}}</ref>