Tier Three

As a substantial unified-grade school in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, Tier Three serves 226 students from grades K through 12, overseen by Intermediate School District 287. That puts it 352% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 50 students.

Intermediate School District 287 runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 927 students. Tier Three is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Tier Three logs that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 26% White, 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 13% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Tier Three has 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 3.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 6.4:1 average. About 55% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

Zooming out to the county, Hennepin County reports that median household income runs about $97,653, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which Tier Three is one.

Nearest neighbor: Tier Two, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

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