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EDINA SENIOR HIGH
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 56% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 24 points, placing it in Minnesota's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About EDINA SENIOR HIGH
EDINA SENIOR HIGH is one of the sizable senior highs in EDINA, Minnesota, operated by EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 2,641 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 612% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 8,794 students. EDINA SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, EDINA SENIOR HIGH reports that White students make up the majority at 66%; the rest comes out to 12% Black, 8% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting EDINA SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 17% of students at EDINA SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, EDINA SENIOR HIGH sits in the top 10% of Minnesota schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 56.0%; actual is 79.6%, +23.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Around the school, 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%. EDINA SENIOR HIGH is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).
The closest other public school is OPTIONS AT EDINA HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, EDINA SENIOR HIGH comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 66.5%.
EDINA SENIOR HIGH operates from a downtown location.
Over the past 7-year window. EDINA SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 2,733 (now 2,641). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 75% to 66%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Hennepin County at a glance
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