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LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH
LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH is one of the big 9-12 campuss in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, one of the schools within Lakeville Area Schools, with 1,871 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 404% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH is one of 21 schools operated by Lakeville Area Schools, a district that hosts 12,025 students overall.
In terms of who attends, LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH shows that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest reads as 9% Asian, 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.1%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dakota County) logs that median household income runs about $106,318, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).
LAKE MARION ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH. On composite proficiency, LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Five-year trend. LAKEVILLE NORTH HIGH's enrollment has expanded 5% since 2018, when it stood at 1,775 (now 1,871). The White share of enrollment edged down from 85% to 67% over that span.
On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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