LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH

LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH, a sizable secondary school in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, one of the schools within Lakeville Area Schools, teaches 1,816 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 389% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Lakeville Area Schools comprises 21 schools with combined enrollment of 12,025 students; LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH is among them.

In terms of who attends, LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH lists that 67% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Dakota County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 48.1%, a residual of -4.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Dakota County shows median household income runs about $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Dakota County runs 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), of which LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH is one.

The closest other public school is LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts LAKEVILLE SOUTH HIGH at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 55.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,819 students in 2018 compared to 1,816 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 67%. Class-load math has rose: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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