ROCKFORD SECONDARY

Set in ROCKFORD, Minnesota, ROCKFORD SECONDARY is a reasonably sized 9-12 campus, run under ROCKFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It works with 479 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so ROCKFORD SECONDARY sits 29% larger than that benchmark.

ROCKFORD SECONDARY is one of 3 schools operated by ROCKFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 1,565 students overall.

In terms of who attends, ROCKFORD SECONDARY records that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 66% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 16.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 25% of students at ROCKFORD SECONDARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ROCKFORD SECONDARY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 51.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 44.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate 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. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), ROCKFORD SECONDARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Rockford Elementary Arts Magnet, roughly 0.1 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROCKFORD SECONDARY comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 4%: 498 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 87% to 76%. Class-load math has fell: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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