Hibbing High

Set in HIBBING, Minnesota, Hibbing High is a high-enrollment four-year high school, operated by Hibbing Public School District. It caters to 829 students across grades 8 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Hibbing High sits 123% larger than that benchmark.

Hibbing High is one of 6 schools operated by Hibbing Public School District, a district that serves 2,232 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Hibbing High shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Hibbing High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hibbing High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 40.4%, a residual of -5.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across St. Louis County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), Hibbing High is one campus in the mix.

Mesabi Area Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Hibbing High. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hibbing High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 40.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 1,053 students in 2018 compared to 829 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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