Avalon Middle School

Located at 700 GLENDALE STREET, in SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, Avalon Middle School is a rural-scale middle school that educates 75 students (grades 6 through 8), operated by AVALON SCHOOL. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so Avalon Middle School sits 85% leaner than that benchmark.

AVALON SCHOOL comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 275 students; Avalon Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Avalon Middle School records that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 15% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 9% Black, 3% Asian. Compared to Ramsey County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ramsey County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Avalon Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.3%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of -11.8 points.

In the area at large, Ramsey County reports that the typical household earns roughly $81,568 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Ramsey County's 302 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,437 students), Avalon Middle School is one campus in the mix.

AVALON SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Avalon Middle School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Avalon Middle School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.2%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. Avalon Middle School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Avalon Middle School's enrollment has climbed 9% since 2018, when it stood at 69 (now 75). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 74% to 57% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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