EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH

EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH operates as a sizable senior high in EDEN PRAIRIE, Minnesota, part of EDEN PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 2,844 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 667% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

EDEN PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 9,292 students. EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH lists that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 19% Black, 16% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 156 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.5%, the actual is 51.6%, a residual of +2.1 points.

In the area at large, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH is one.

PRAIRIE VIEW ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. EDEN PRAIRIE SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has shrank 4% since 2018, when it stood at 2,956 (now 2,844). The White share of enrollment declined from 65% to 47% over that span.

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