ORONO SENIOR HIGH

ORONO SENIOR HIGH operates as a sprawling high school in LONG LAKE, Minnesota, run under ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 961 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 159% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Within ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 6 schools and 2,987 students, ORONO SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, ORONO SENIOR HIGH shows that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest is composed of 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at ORONO SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ORONO SENIOR HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.6%; this one delivers 60.0%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $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. ORONO SENIOR HIGH is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

Nearest neighbor: ORONO MIDDLE, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ORONO SENIOR HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ORONO SENIOR HIGH at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 71.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORONO SENIOR HIGH has stayed largely flat, going from 951 students in 2018 to 961 in 2025.

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