St. Peter High School

St. Peter High School operates as a sizable four-year high school in SAINT PETER, Minnesota, part of ST. PETER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 692 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so St. Peter High School sits 87% bigger than that benchmark.

St. Peter High School is one of 7 schools operated by ST. PETER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 2,107 students overall.

On the student-mix side, St. Peter High School logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White; the rest is composed of 18% Hispanic, 7% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at St. Peter High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, St. Peter High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.0%; this one delivers 47.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Nicollet County) records that the typical household earns roughly $79,756 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Nicollet County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,447 students), St. Peter High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: St. Peter Middle School, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 676 students in 2018 compared to 692 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 10% to 18% over that span.

On the community side, members of the St. Peter High School community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.