RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH

RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH, an expansive high school in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, operated by RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educates 1,183 students, covering grades 9 through 12. That puts it 219% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,094 students; RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH is among them.

Demographically, RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 25% White, 15% Black, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 84 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 28.4%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is CENTRAL EDUCATION CENTER, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. RICHFIELD SENIOR HIGH's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,142 (now 1,183). The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 39% to 47% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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