Exploration High School

Located at 2620 RUSSELL AVE N, in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Exploration High School is a micro-enrollment four-year high school that serves 136 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Exploration High School. That puts it 63% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Exploration High School is a school of Exploration High School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Exploration High School lists that the most-represented group is White (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 29% Hispanic, 29% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Exploration High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Exploration High School is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 39.4%; Exploration High School posts 26.8%, -12.6 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Exploration High School is one campus in the mix.

Plymouth Youth Center Extended is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Exploration High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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