Columbia Heights Senior High

Columbia Heights Senior High operates as an expansive 9-12 campus in COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minnesota, part of Columbia Heights Public School Dist. Current enrollment sits at 1,141 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Columbia Heights Senior High sits 208% larger than that benchmark.

Within Columbia Heights Public School Dist, which oversees 10 schools and 3,516 students, Columbia Heights Senior High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Columbia Heights Senior High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 30% Black, 12% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 6% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Columbia Heights Senior High has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Columbia Heights Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Anoka County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Columbia Heights Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.2%, the actual is 23.5%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Around the school, census data for Anoka County shows median household earnings sit near $101,869, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Columbia Heights Senior High is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).

Columbia Heights Transition Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Columbia Heights Senior High ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 15.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Columbia Heights Senior High's enrollment has ticked up 22% since 2018, when it stood at 936 (now 1,141). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 32% to 51%.

On the community side, the feed for Columbia Heights Senior High typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.