DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL

DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL is one of the rural-scale four-year high schools in Drake, North Dakota, run under DRAKE 57, with 75 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. That puts it 66% smaller than the typical public school in North Dakota, which averages around 220 students.

Operationally, DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL answers to DRAKE 57, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL shows that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 7.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.1:1, putting DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (McHenry County) logs that median household earnings sit near $80,733, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across McHenry County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 940 students), DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: ANAMOOSE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 6.6 miles off.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Five-year trend. DRAKE HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 84 (now 75). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 7.3:1 today.

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