Community of Peace Academy High Sch

Community of Peace Academy High Sch is one of the low-enrollment four-year high schools in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, operated by COMMUNITY OF PEACE ACADEMY, with 250 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 371.

Community of Peace Academy High Sch is one of 3 schools operated by COMMUNITY OF PEACE ACADEMY, a district that educates 855 students overall.

On demographics, Community of Peace Academy High Sch shows that 34% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 29% Hispanic, 25% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Community of Peace Academy High Sch shows 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Community of Peace Academy High Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.1%, the actual is 26.5%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, Ramsey County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Community of Peace Academy High Sch is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: Community of Peace Academy Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Community of Peace Academy High Sch. On composite proficiency, Community of Peace Academy High Sch comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, Community of Peace Academy High Sch runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Community of Peace Academy High Sch has held roughly steady, going from 254 students in 2018 to 250 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Community of Peace Academy High Sch community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.