ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH

ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH is a high school of sizable scale in ROSEMOUNT, Minnesota, part of ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, hosting 2,364 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH sits 537% larger than that benchmark.

ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 29,224 students; ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH reports that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 11% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 123 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH higher than the state norm the norm. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Dakota County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

ROSEMOUNT MIDDLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROSEMOUNT SENIOR HIGH at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 54.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 2,326 students in 2018 compared to 2,364 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 76% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

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