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Hopkins High School
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MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hopkins High School
Hopkins High School, a large high school in MINNETONKA, Minnesota, one of the schools within HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 2,003 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Hopkins High School sits 440% larger than that benchmark.
Within HOPKINS PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 14 schools and 7,129 students, Hopkins High School is one campus in the system.
Demographically, Hopkins High School shows that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 27% Black, 13% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Hopkins High School has 103 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.5:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Hopkins High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hopkins High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 43.8%, a residual of -1.7 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Hopkins High School is one campus in the mix.
Hopkins North Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hopkins High School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hopkins High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.4%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hopkins High School has ticked up 25%, going from 1,604 students in 2018 to 2,003 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 59% to 48%. Class-load math has widened: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 in 2025.
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