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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Merc

Minneapolis, Minnesota

NCES ID
272124001898
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Merc is a public high school in Minneapolis, Minnesota, run by Minneapolis Public School District. It enrols 64 students — the 90439th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

64students

90439th nationally, tied with 78

Free or reduced-price lunch

95.3%percent

8586th nationally, tied with 95

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Minneapolis Public School District

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Washburn High1,582 students
  2. 2Southwest High1,484 students
  3. 3South High1,466 students
  4. 4Roosevelt High1,044 students
  5. 5Justice Page Middle925 students
  6. 6Edison High896 students
  7. 7Andersen Middle872 students
  8. 8Henry High858 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Minnesota median across 2,771 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−78.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+94.9%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.