Paladin Career and Tech High School

Paladin Career and Tech High School is a secondary school of cozy scale in COON RAPIDS, Minnesota, operated by Paladin Career and Tech High School, works with 257 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 31% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Paladin Career and Tech High School is the operating authority for Paladin Career and Tech High School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Paladin Career and Tech High School lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 23% Black, 14% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Anoka County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Paladin Career and Tech High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 31.8%; actual is 19.1%, a gap of -12.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Anoka County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Anoka County's 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), Paladin Career and Tech High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: University Avenue Elementary - Aero, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Paladin Career and Tech High School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 48.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Paladin Career and Tech High School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 27%: 202 students in 2018 compared to 257 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 45% to 23%. Class-load math has loosened: from 10.9:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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