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HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS
Located at 1515 BREWSTER ST, in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is a sprawling four-year high school that hosts 791 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 113% bigger than typical.
HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 2,503 students. HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (97%). By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.5%, the actual is 30.9%, a residual of +8.4 points.
In the surrounding community, Ramsey County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is one.
Nearest neighbor: Hmong College Prep Academy ES, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HMONG COLLEGE PREP ACADEMY HS has expanded 60%, going from 495 students in 2018 to 791 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 5.1:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 today.
Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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