South St. Paul High School

South St. Paul High School operates as a sprawling secondary school in SOUTH SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, operated by South St. Paul Public School Dist. Current enrollment sits at 866 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 133% above typical.

Across the 7 schools in South St. Paul Public School Dist (2,861 students total), South St. Paul High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, South St. Paul High School lists that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% Hispanic, 8% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Dakota County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, South St. Paul High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.9%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Dakota County reports that 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. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), South St. Paul High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: South St. Paul Middle School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 50%: 1,727 students in 2018 compared to 866 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 59% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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