Gentry Academy High

Located at 1420 COUNTY ROAD E EAST, in VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minnesota, Gentry Academy High is an one-room-style senior high that hosts 134 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Gentry Academy Charter School. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 64% leaner than typical.

Gentry Academy Charter School runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 329 students. Gentry Academy High is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gentry Academy High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Gentry Academy High shows 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Gentry Academy High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 49.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ramsey County) logs that median household income runs about $81,568, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Gentry Academy High is one campus in the mix.

Gentry Academy Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gentry Academy High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gentry Academy High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. As a public charter, Gentry Academy High runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

On the community side, the feed for Gentry Academy High typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.