Mound Westonka High School

Located at 5905 SUNNYFIELD RD E, in MINNETRISTA, Minnesota, Mound Westonka High School is a large high school that caters to 895 students (grades 8 through 12), overseen by Westonka Public School District. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Mound Westonka High School sits 141% larger than that benchmark.

Within Westonka Public School District, which oversees 6 schools and 2,442 students, Mound Westonka High School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Mound Westonka High School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%); the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.4:1 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, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mound Westonka High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.5%; this one delivers 58.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Mound Westonka High School is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Transition Plus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mound Westonka High School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mound Westonka High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 77.3%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Mound Westonka High School's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 899 (now 895). Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 17.4:1 in 2025.

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