Original Research by School Decision on Rosa Parks Charter High School
Rosa Parks Charter High School in Rochester, Minnesota, serves grades nine through twelve as a single-school charter district. Its enrollment is small for a high school, with roughly equal numbers across the upper grades and a slightly larger senior class. The student body is predominantly white, with Hispanic, black, multiracial, and a small Asian presence. Data on economic disadvantage, special education, and English learner status is not available, so a family cannot assess those dimensions from the information here.
State testing results are absent from the record, and no graduation rate is reported either. Among Olmsted County’s districts, the school’s chronic absenteeism rate sits at the bottom of the range, meaning it is the highest in the county. The per-pupil current spending is in the upper range of the county’s districts, which may reflect the costs of operating a small, standalone high school.
The defining fact of this school is that it is no longer operating. The Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools revoked the school’s charter following an investigation that confirmed multiple compliance and safety concerns, with the closure effective in the fall of 2024. Publicly reported sources confirm the school is listed by the Minnesota Department of Education as not active and as stopping service to students in the 2024–2025 school year. For any family reading this, the immediate takeaway is that Rosa Parks Charter High School does not exist as an option for enrollment. Students who attended there must find an alternative school elsewhere in Rochester or Olmsted County. The charter’s revocation means the district itself has dissolved, and the data shown here reflects a school that has already ceased to function.
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