Burnsville Alternative High School

Burnsville Alternative High School, a tight-knit four-year high school in EAGAN, Minnesota, one of the schools within Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools, educates 198 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 47% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 7,663 students. Burnsville Alternative High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Burnsville Alternative High School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 28% Black, 16% White, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Dakota County) shows that median household earnings sit near $106,318, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Burnsville Alternative High School is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

The closest other public school is Burnsville Sr High Extended Day Pro, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Burnsville Alternative High School's enrollment has climbed 47% since 2018, when it stood at 135 (now 198). The White share of enrollment edged down from 27% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 9.1:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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