ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH

ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH, a large secondary school in NEW HOPE, Minnesota, overseen by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 1,396 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 276% bigger than typical.

ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 10,821 students; ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH is among them.

Demographically, ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH logs that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% Hispanic, 18% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 27.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) logs that median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH is one.

New Hope Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGH.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 10%: 1,556 students in 2018 compared to 1,396 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 28% to 18%.

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