ROCORI SENIOR HIGH

ROCORI SENIOR HIGH is a 9-12 campus of roomy scale in COLD SPRING, Minnesota, operated by ROCORI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosting 824 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 122% above typical.

Within ROCORI PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 7 schools and 2,406 students, ROCORI SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the system.

On demographics, ROCORI SENIOR HIGH logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, ROCORI SENIOR HIGH lists 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting ROCORI SENIOR HIGH tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stearns County runs at roughly 44%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, ROCORI SENIOR HIGH sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.9%; this one delivers 46.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Stearns County indicate median household income runs about $77,066, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Stearns County's 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), ROCORI SENIOR HIGH is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ROCORI MIDDLE, around 0.0 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, ROCORI SENIOR HIGH comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.5%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 4%: 790 students in 2018 compared to 824 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.