DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL

Set in APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota, DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL is a heavily attended all-grades campus, one of the schools within ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. It serves 101 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 50 students each, so DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL sits 102% bigger than that benchmark.

Within ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, which oversees 36 schools and 29,224 students, DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL records that the most-represented group is White (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 16% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 3.8:1. The state averages around 6.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dakota County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DIAMOND PATH EL SCH OF INTL STUDIES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. DAKOTA RIDGE SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 94 (now 101). White enrollment moved from 52% to 43% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 5.4:1 in 2018 to 3.8:1 today.

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