MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH

MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH is one of the big senior highs in MANKATO, Minnesota, overseen by MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 1,302 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 251% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 8,219 students. MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH lists that 66% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 16% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.3%; this one delivers 38.5%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Blue Earth County) reports that median household earnings sit near $74,477, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH is one of 31 public schools in Blue Earth County (combined enrollment of about 9,034 students).

The closest other public school is KENNEDY ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 45.9%.

MANKATO EAST SENIOR HIGH operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 21%: 1,077 students in 2018 compared to 1,302 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 71% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

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