Downtown Campus

Downtown Campus is a high school in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, and it is part of Minnesota Internship Center. Enrollment totals 87 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 77% below the 371-student average for high schools in Minnesota.

Downtown Campus is one school in Minnesota Internship Center, a system of 4 schools with 371 students.

Downtown Campus is 85% Black by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Native American. Census estimates put the Black share of Hennepin County's population at about 13%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Downtown Campus scores 27%.

With 7.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.7:1. High schools in Minnesota average 16.3:1, 4.6 more students per teacher than here. Roughly 100% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Hennepin County averages 43%, lower than here.

Census data for Hennepin County show median household income comes to about $97,653, about 54% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 496 public schools in the county, enrolling about 177,509, Downtown Campus among them.

Among nearby public schools, Emerson Elementary is closest at about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

In the federal locale system, Downtown Campus is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Downtown Campus is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 28% decline, from 121 to 87. The ratio was 30.3:1 in 2020-21 and 11.7:1 in 2024-25.

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