Albany Area Middle School

Located at 30 FOREST AVE, in ALBANY, Minnesota, Albany Area Middle School is a mid-sized 6-8 campus that hosts 457 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Albany Area Middle School is one of 5 schools operated by ALBANY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 1,744 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Albany Area Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest reads as 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Stearns County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Stearns County (around 44%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Albany Area Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.7%, the actual is 51.7%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Stearns County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,066 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Albany Area Middle School is one of 74 public schools in Stearns County (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students).

Albany Area High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Albany Area Middle School. On composite proficiency, Albany Area Middle School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Albany Area Middle School has grew 14%, going from 400 students in 2018 to 457 in 2025.

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