New Century School Secondary

Set in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, New Century School Secondary is a small four-year high school, part of New Century School. It hosts 284 students across grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 371.

New Century School runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 966 students. New Century School Secondary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, New Century School Secondary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). The remainder looks like 3% White. By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 12% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, New Century School Secondary logs 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 31.6:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ramsey County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, New Century School Secondary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.6%, the actual is 25.7%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the surrounding community, Ramsey County reports that median household earnings sit near $81,568, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. In all, Ramsey County runs 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), of which New Century School Secondary is one.

Nearest neighbor: NCS Online Program, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, New Century School Secondary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, New Century School Secondary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.