BES Transition Program

BES Transition Program is a very small high school with its address in BURNSVILLE, Minnesota. It reports enrollment of 42 students in grade 12. That puts enrollment 89% below the 371-student average for high schools in Minnesota.

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools runs 19 schools with a combined 7,663 students. BES Transition Program is one of them.

The biggest share of students at BES Transition Program, 50%, is White. The rest of enrollment is 19% Hispanic, 17% Black, 12% Asian, and 2% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Dakota County's population at about 74%.

There are 5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 8.4:1. Across high schools in Minnesota, the average ratio is 16.3:1. Of all students at BES Transition Program, 67% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 34% average for public schools in Dakota County is 33 points.

Dakota County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $106,318 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Public schools in Dakota County number 170, with about 74,687 students.

Burnsville Area Learning Center, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

BES Transition Program is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, a location NCES labels City: Small.

Enrollment was 42 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 33. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 6.6:1 in 2020-21 to 8.4:1 in 2024-25.

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