Saint Paul Online High School is a public virtual high school serving grades 9-12 in the Saint Paul Public Schools district, with an enrollment of 252 students and a diverse student population.
While the school ranks 1st out of 90 Minnesota high schools for English Language Learner (ELL) students, it faces several challenges. Saint Paul Online High School has significantly lower proficiency rates on the MCA-III assessments compared to the district and state averages, with only 3.85% of 11th-grade students proficient in Math. The school's four-year graduation rate is 68.3%, lower than the district average of 80.7%, and its dropout rate of 1.6% is higher than the district's 2.3%. Additionally, the school has a very high percentage of students (82.14%) who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.
When compared to other nearby schools in the Saint Paul Public Schools district, such as Open World Learning Secondary and Nova Classical Academy Upper School, both magnet schools, Saint Paul Online High School generally performs worse academically. The school's ranking for female students is also lower than for male students, suggesting potential gender-based achievement gaps, and the school's ranking for low-socioeconomic-status students is lower than the overall school ranking, indicating that the school may be struggling to support this population.
Saint Paul Online High School ranks in the bottom 24.2% of Minnesota high schools.
Students at Saint Paul Online High School are 32% Asian, 28% African American, 19% Hispanic, 11% White, 9% Two or more races, 1% American Indian.
Saint Paul Public Schools
In the 2022-23 school year, 252 students attended Saint Paul Online High School.