Johnson Senior High

Johnson Senior High is a secondary school of roomy scale in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, part of Saint Paul Public Schools, serveing 1,076 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Johnson Senior High sits 190% bigger than that benchmark.

Saint Paul Public Schools comprises 87 schools with combined enrollment of 33,152 students; Johnson Senior High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Johnson Senior High shows that 50% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 23% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 15% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at Johnson Senior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Ramsey County's rate of about 57%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Johnson Senior High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 23.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate 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%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Johnson Senior High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Farnsworth Aerospace Lower, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Johnson Senior High comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Johnson Senior High has fell 17%, going from 1,292 students in 2018 to 1,076 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 11% to 6% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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