Highland Park Senior High

Highland Park Senior High operates as a substantial high school in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, overseen by Saint Paul Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,392 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Highland Park Senior High sits 275% larger than that benchmark.

Within Saint Paul Public Schools, which oversees 87 schools and 33,152 students, Highland Park Senior High is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Highland Park Senior High logs that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 22% Black, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Ramsey County as a whole is about 59% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Highland Park Senior High has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.6:1. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Highland Park Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 42.3%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ramsey County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Highland Park Senior High is one of 302 public schools in Ramsey County (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students).

Highland Park Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Highland Park Senior High. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland Park Senior High ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Highland Park Senior High's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 1,308 (now 1,392). Over the same period, the Asian share shrank from 15% to 11%. Class-load math has loosened: from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.