Laker Online

Laker Online is a four-year high school of rural-scale scale in PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, part of Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, educateing 49 students in grades 6 through 12. That puts it 87% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Laker Online is one of 14 schools operated by Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, a district that educates 8,788 students overall.

Demographically, Laker Online logs that the most-represented group is Black (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 37% White, 8% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% Native American. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 6% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Laker Online qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Scott County's rate of about 28%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate the typical household earns roughly $119,314 per year, about 44% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Scott County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), Laker Online is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ALC Independent Study, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Laker Online operates from an outer-ring location. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

On allk12, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.