SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL

SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL operates as a sprawling four-year high school in Fargo, North Dakota, overseen by FARGO 1. Current enrollment sits at 898 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 308% above the state mean of about 220.

FARGO 1 runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 11,443 students. SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL reports that White students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 17% Black, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.1:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Cass County) logs that median household earnings sit near $75,555, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Cass County's 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,826 students), SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LEWIS AND CLARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 1,034 (now 898). White enrollment moved from 67% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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