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Which teacher or staff member at Brooklyn Center High School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
539
High
DISTRICT 369 · STATE 371
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROOKLYN CENTER COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 270624000273
Brooklyn Center High School
6500 HUMBOLDT AVE N, BROOKLYN CENTER, MN 55430 · (763) 561-2120 · Hennepin County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of Minnesota public high schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 16.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
426 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 156 | 29% |
| Grade 10 | 140 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 120 | 22% |
| Grade 12 | 123 | 23% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
21.3%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
5.7%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 6 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
13.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.6%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Brooklyn Center High School
Brooklyn Center High School's state test result (13.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Center High School this school | 539 | 79.0% | 13.0% |
| Camden High MINNEAPOLIS | 783 | 72.4% | 14.7% |
| Creative Arts Secondary School SAINT PAUL | 382 | 75.4% | 22.0% |
| Fridley Senior High FRIDLEY | 796 | 70.0% | 26.1% |
| ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH NEW HOPE | 1,396 | 70.4% | 25.3% |
| North High MINNEAPOLIS | 591 | 75.6% | 8.3% |
Matched among Minnesota high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Brooklyn Center High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.0% | #388 of 397 | #40 of 45 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 5.7% | #389 of 401 | #43 of 47 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #386 of 397 | #40 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #158 of 764 | #30 of 100 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #132 of 332 | #14 of 38 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.7% | #46 of 338 | #17 of 38 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.0% | #30 of 444 | #11 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #98 of 146 | #11 of 16 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
539
+11 (+2%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 866
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 539 | 34.1 | 15.8:1 | 79% (426) |
| 2023-24 | 516 | 31.3 | 16.5:1 | 81% (419) |
| 2022-23 | 510 | 28.1 | 18.1:1 | 83% (423) |
| 2020-21 | 528 | 31 | 17.0:1 | 82% (432) |
| 2017-18 | 573 | 37.2 | 15.4:1 | 82% (470) |
| 2015-16 | 973 | 62 | 15.7:1 | 79% (769) |
| 2010-11 | 731 | 60 | 12.2:1 | 80% (588) |
| 2000-01 | 852 | 54 | 15.8:1 | 44% (377) |
| 1990-91 | 866 | 49 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brooklyn Center High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (573 to 539); teachers down 8% (37.2 to 34.1).
About Brooklyn Center High School
Brooklyn Center High School is a high school in BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota, reachable at (763) 561-2120. The school enrolls 539 students in grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in Minnesota enroll around 371, and this school is 45% larger than that mark.
Brooklyn Center Community Schools runs Brooklyn Center High School along with 6 other schools, enrolling 2,174 students in total.
Black students account for 47% of enrollment at Brooklyn Center High School, more than any other group. Smaller groups are 27% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 13% of Hennepin County residents are Black. The diversity index for Brooklyn Center High School is 68%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Brooklyn Center High School reported 34.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 15.8:1. The ratio is within a point of the 16.3:1 average for high schools in Minnesota. Roughly 79% of students at Brooklyn Center High School can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 43% average for public schools in Hennepin County.
On the allk12 Grade, Brooklyn Center High School lands at D, ahead of 9% of Minnesota public high schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Brooklyn Center High School falls in the middle 80% of Minnesota schools: 13.0% actual against 22.6% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Hennepin County, the median household earns about $97,653 a year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Brooklyn Center High School, Hennepin County has 496 public schools.
Brooklyn Center Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Brooklyn Center High School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Brooklyn Center High School places 3rd of 5 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
In the federal locale system, Brooklyn Center High School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Brooklyn Center High School was 528 in 2020-21 and 539 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 17.0 to 15.8 over 4 years.
This page collects posts and questions about Brooklyn Center High School, such as fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Brooklyn Center Community Schools
- Brooklyn Center Elementary SchoolElementary · 708 students
- INSIGHT SCHOOL OF MINNESOTAHigh · 509 students
- Brooklyn Center Middle SchoolMiddle · 334 students
- Brooklyn Center Early College AcadHigh · 60 students
- Brooklyn Center ECSE Age 3 - 5Elementary · 18 students
- Early Childhood Special Education (Elementary · 6 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN CENTER
- New Millennium Academy CharterElementary · 845 students
- Brooklyn Center Elementary SchoolElementary · 708 students
- INSIGHT SCHOOL OF MINNESOTAHigh · 509 students
- NORTHPORT ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
- Evergreen Park Elementary-STEMElementary · 422 students
- Early Childhood Special EducationElementary · 404 students
Nearby schools
- Brooklyn Center Middle School0.0 mi · 334
- Evergreen Park Elementary-STEM0.7 mi · 422
- Brooklyn Center Elementary School0.7 mi · 708
- Brooklyn Center ECSE Age 3 - 50.7 mi · 18
- Early Childhood Special Education (0.7 mi · 6
- INSIGHT SCHOOL OF MINNESOTA1.0 mi · 509
Frequently asked questions
About Brooklyn Center High SchoolHow many students attend Brooklyn Center High School?
Brooklyn Center High School enrolls approximately 539 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Brooklyn Center High School serve?
Brooklyn Center High School serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Brooklyn Center High School have?
Brooklyn Center High School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Brooklyn Center High School?
Student demographics at Brooklyn Center High School are roughly 5% White, 27% Hispanic, 47% Black, 16% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Brooklyn Center High School public or private?
Brooklyn Center High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Brooklyn Center Community Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.