Focus Beyond

Focus Beyond is a small high school for students in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 212 students. By comparison, high schools in Minnesota enroll about 371 students on average.

Saint Paul Public Schools includes 87 schools. Together they enroll 33,152 students.

No group is above 50% at Focus Beyond; the largest is Black, at 33%. Other reported shares: 22% White, 22% Asian, 17% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Ramsey County's residents are about 12% Black, 21 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Focus Beyond scores 76%.

The student-to-teacher ratio at Focus Beyond is 8.8:1, based on 24.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in Minnesota is 16.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. Focus Beyond counts 78% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Ramsey County average 57%.

Looking at the county, Ramsey County, the median household earns about $81,568 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. Counting Focus Beyond, Ramsey County has 302 public schools.

Focus Beyond's nearest public school is Bridge View Special Education (less than a tenth of a mile). In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Focus Beyond.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Large. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 212, from 258 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 14.3:1 to 8.8:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.

The discussion board for Focus Beyond is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.