Brooklyn Center High School

Set in BROOKLYN CENTER, Minnesota, Brooklyn Center High School is a reasonably sized senior high, run under Brooklyn Center Community Schools. It hosts 539 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Brooklyn Center Community Schools runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,174 students. Brooklyn Center High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Brooklyn Center High School lists that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 5% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 79% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brooklyn Center High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 13.0%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Brooklyn Center High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Brooklyn Center Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brooklyn Center High School. On composite proficiency, Brooklyn Center High School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 17.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brooklyn Center High School has shrank 6%, going from 573 students in 2018 to 539 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 22% to 27% over that span.

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