EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE

EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE operates as an one-room-style senior high in MOUNTAIN IRON, Minnesota, overseen by EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE. Current enrollment sits at 127 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE sits 66% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE answers to EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE records that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 9% multiracial, 8% Native American, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against St. Louis County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 16.8%, the actual is 17.6%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE is one of 100 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students).

The closest other public school is MERRITT ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 43.2%.

The school occupies an outlying site. EAST RANGE ACADEMY OF TECH-SCIENCE operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 143 students in 2018 compared to 127 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 77% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 8.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 in 2025.

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