MERC Extended

Set in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, MERC Extended is an one-room-style four-year high school, one of the schools within Minneapolis Public School District. It caters to 7 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 98% below typical.

MERC Extended is one of 86 schools operated by Minneapolis Public School District, a district that educates 29,928 students overall.

On demographics, MERC Extended logs that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 14% White. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) reports that median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MERC Extended is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is MERC, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.