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Pines School - NSP
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pines School - NSP
Pines School - NSP, a tiny senior high in LINO LAKES, Minnesota, part of Centennial Public School District, enrolls 20 students, covering grades 6 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Pines School - NSP sits 95% below that benchmark.
Centennial Public School District runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 6,851 students. Pines School - NSP is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Pines School - NSP shows that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 25% Black, 15% Native American, 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Roughly 80% of students at Pines School - NSP qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Anoka County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Anoka County put median household earnings sit near $101,869, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Pines School - NSP is one of 145 public schools in Anoka County (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students).
Pines School Day Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pines School - NSP.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 5%: 19 students in 2018 compared to 20 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 5% across the same window.
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