Edison High

Located at 700 22ND AVE NE, in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Edison High is a heavily attended 9-12 campus that educates 865 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Minneapolis Public School District. That puts it 133% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Within Minneapolis Public School District, which oversees 86 schools and 29,928 students, Edison High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Edison High records that 41% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 27% White, 21% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Edison High has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Edison High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Edison High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.3%; this one delivers 29.9%.

In the surrounding community, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Edison High is one campus in the mix.

New City School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edison High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edison High ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 28.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 958 students in 2018 compared to 865 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 53% to 41% across the same window.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.