Hiawatha Collegiate High School

Hiawatha Collegiate High School is one of the sprawling secondary schools in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, operated by HIAWATHA ACADEMIES, with 744 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 101% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Across the 4 schools in HIAWATHA ACADEMIES (1,660 students total), Hiawatha Collegiate High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Hiawatha Collegiate High School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest breaks down as 12% Black. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at Hiawatha Collegiate High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Hiawatha Collegiate High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.5%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of +4.9 points.

Around the school, census data for Hennepin County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Hiawatha Collegiate High School is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is Anishinabe Academy Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hiawatha Collegiate High School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hiawatha Collegiate High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 24.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Hiawatha Collegiate High School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 157%: 290 students in 2018 compared to 744 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 today.

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