Public school / High
South Education Center Academy
Richfield, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 270002502871
- District
- Intermediate School District 287
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
South Education Center Academy is a public high school in Richfield, Minnesota, run by Intermediate School District 287. It enrols 43 students — the 92258th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.
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
43
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
7.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
72.1%
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.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
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.
Within Intermediate School District 287
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.
- 1Tier Two243 students
- 2Tier Three179 students
- 3West Education Center Alternative79 students
- 4Hennepin Gateway To College70 students
- 5South Education Center Academy43 students
- 6North Education Center Academy40 students
- 7School #53139 students
- 8School #52728 students
- Enrollment−85.7%
- Teachers−71.4%
- Students per teacher−50.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+47.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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