Eagle Ridge Junior High School is a junior high school located in Savage, Minnesota

Savage, Minnesota

Savage is a suburban city south-southwest of downtown Minneapolis in Scott County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The city is situated on the south bank of the Minnesota River in a region commonly referred to as South of the River, comprising the southern portion of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the...

. It is a part of the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District

Burnsville-Eagan-Savage is Independent School District 191 in the U.S. state of Minnesota; it serves the city of Burnsville and parts of the neighboring cities of Savage and Eagan...

 (Independent School District 191). The school serves grades 7-9. It was built in 1996 to accommodate the recent influx of students from the Savage area.

Demographics

As of the 2009-10 school year, there were 660 students attending Eagle Ridge Junior High School.

The racial/ethnic composition was as follows:

• White
  White American
  White Americans are people of the United States who are considered or consider themselves White. The United States Census Bureau defines White people as those "having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa...
  
  : 75%
• Black: 7%
• Asian
  Asian American
  Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...
  
  : 9%
• Hispanic
  Hispanic and Latino Americans
  Hispanic or Latino Americans are Americans with origins in the Hispanic countries of Latin America or in Spain, and in general all persons in the United States who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino.1990 Census of Population and Housing: A self-designated classification for people whose origins...
  
  : 60%
• American Indian
  Indigenous peoples of the Americas
  The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
  
  : 1%

Roughly 8% of the student population had limited English proficiency, and 8% had special education

Special education

Special education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...

needs. Approximately 26% of the student population were eligible for free or reduced price lunch.

External links

• Eagle Ridge Junior High