MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL

MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL, an expansive 9-12 campus in MOORHEAD, Minnesota, one of the schools within Moorhead Area Public Schools, caters to 2,122 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 472% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Within Moorhead Area Public Schools, which oversees 12 schools and 7,571 students, MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Native American. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 111 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 40.2%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Clay County put median household income runs about $81,172, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Clay County runs 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,470 students), of which MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL is one.

Robert Asp Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 42.2%.

MOORHEAD HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 21%: 1,756 students in 2018 compared to 2,122 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 75% to 68% across the same window.

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