Burnsville High School

As a sizable senior high in BURNSVILLE, Minnesota, Burnsville High School works with 2,029 students from grades 9 through 12, overseen by Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Burnsville High School sits 447% above that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Burnsville High School shows that 30% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% White, 27% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 115 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Dakota County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Burnsville High School is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.4%; Burnsville High School posts 24.6%, -13.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Dakota County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), Burnsville High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gateway STEM Academy Charter School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Burnsville High School.

Burnsville High School operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Burnsville High School has declined 20%, going from 2,534 students in 2018 to 2,029 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 50% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 today.

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