APOLLO SENIOR HIGH

APOLLO SENIOR HIGH is a secondary school of big scale in SAINT CLOUD, Minnesota, part of ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, caters to 1,264 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 241% bigger than the state mean of about 371.

Across the 22 schools in ST. CLOUD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (9,803 students total), APOLLO SENIOR HIGH accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, APOLLO SENIOR HIGH reports that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 32% White, 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 76 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Stearns County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, APOLLO SENIOR HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.0%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate median household earnings sit near $77,066, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. APOLLO SENIOR HIGH is one of 74 public schools in Stearns County (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students).

Katherine Johnson Education Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), APOLLO SENIOR HIGH ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.9%.

APOLLO SENIOR HIGH operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. APOLLO SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has declined 11% since 2018, when it stood at 1,426 (now 1,264). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 46% to 32%.

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