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Como Park Senior High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Como Park Senior High
Como Park Senior High is a four-year high school of sizable scale in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, one of the schools within Saint Paul Public Schools, serveing 1,034 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Como Park Senior High sits 179% above that benchmark.
Como Park Senior High is one of 87 schools operated by Saint Paul Public Schools, a district that educates 33,152 students overall.
On demographics, Como Park Senior High logs that the most-represented group is Black (31%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 31% Asian, 17% White, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at Como Park Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.
With demographic context factored in, Como Park Senior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.0%.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Ramsey County put the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Como Park Senior High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Saint Paul Online Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Como Park Senior High ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.8%.
Como Park Senior High operates from an urban location.
Over the past 7-year window. Como Park Senior High's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 1,291 (now 1,034). Class-load math has widened: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.
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