Coon Rapids High School

As a sprawling four-year high school in COON RAPIDS, Minnesota, Coon Rapids High School teaches 1,975 students from grades 9 through 12, part of Anoka-Hennepin School District. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 432% larger than typical.

Anoka-Hennepin School District runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 38,746 students. Coon Rapids High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Coon Rapids High School shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 23% Black, 12% Asian, 10% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 75% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Coon Rapids High School logs 116 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Coon Rapids High School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 51% 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 Anoka County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coon Rapids High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Anoka County indicate median household income runs about $101,869, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Anoka County runs 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), of which Coon Rapids High School is one.

Coon Rapids Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Coon Rapids High School. On composite proficiency, Coon Rapids High School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.6%.

Coon Rapids High School operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 2,067 students in 2018 compared to 1,975 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 64% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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