SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY

SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY is one of the compact high schools in CULVER, Minnesota, run under ST. LOUIS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 258 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 30% smaller than typical.

Within ST. LOUIS COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 1,914 students, SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY logs that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 14% multiracial, 7% Native American. By comparison, St. Louis County as a whole is about 90% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. About 43% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.1%; SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY posts 21.9%, -20.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY is one of 100 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students).

Nearest neighbor: SOUTH RIDGE ELEMENTARY, around 0.0 miles off. On composite proficiency, SOUTH RIDGE SECONDARY comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.4%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 261 students in 2018 compared to 258 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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