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Shakopee High School
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Shakopee High School
Located at 100 17TH AVE W, in SHAKOPEE, Minnesota, Shakopee High School is a roomy four-year high school that enrolls 2,823 students (grades 9 through 12), operated by Shakopee Public School District. That puts it 661% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.
Shakopee High School is one of 12 schools operated by Shakopee Public School District, a district that teaches 7,717 students overall.
Demographically, Shakopee High School lists that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 11% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 157 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shakopee High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of +0.2 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate median household earnings sit near $119,314, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Scott County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), Shakopee High School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Jackson Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shakopee High School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shakopee High School at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 36.0%.
Shakopee High School operates from a residential location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 53%: 1,848 students in 2018 compared to 2,823 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 60% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.
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