Rock Ridge High School

Located at 1403 PROGRESS PKWY, in VIRGINIA, Minnesota, Rock Ridge High School is an expansive four-year high school that works with 1,048 students (grades 7 through 12), part of Rock Ridge Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 182% above typical.

Rock Ridge Public Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,288 students. Rock Ridge High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock Ridge High School reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, 2% Native American. That composition is broadly in line with St. Louis County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Rock Ridge High School logs 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.8:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rock Ridge High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 48.9%; this one comes in at 34.0%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for St. Louis County put median household earnings sit near $70,069, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Rock Ridge High School is one of 100 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rock Ridge High School ALP, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rock Ridge High School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rock Ridge High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 39.9%.

Rock Ridge High School operates from a low-density location.

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