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If you had an hour of school board time for Brooklyn Middle STEAM School, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
931
Middle
DISTRICT 849 · STATE 495
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 272520001208
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School
7377 NOBLE AVE N, BROOKLYN PARK, MN 55443 · (763) 569-7700 · Hennepin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL931 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of Minnesota public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
575 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 323 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 334 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 274 | 29% |
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
37.0%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
21.6%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Brooklyn Middle STEAM School
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School's state test result (26.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklyn Middle STEAM School this school | 931 | 61.8% | 26.9% |
| Skyview Community Middle OAKDALE | 1,029 | 62.4% | 32.0% |
| John Glenn Middle MAPLEWOOD | 1,073 | 69.9% | 25.4% |
| Murray Middle School SAINT PAUL | 576 | 57.1% | 32.1% |
| E-STEM Middle School WOODBURY | 512 | 71.7% | 21.0% |
| Global Arts Plus Upper SAINT PAUL | 437 | 66.1% | 21.0% |
Matched among Minnesota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Brooklyn Middle STEAM School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #205 of 245 | #29 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.6% | #208 of 245 | #30 of 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #200 of 245 | #28 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 931 | #49 of 306 | #13 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #63 of 210 | #18 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.9% | #10 of 216 | #4 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.8% | #49 of 252 | #20 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #98 of 129 | #18 of 24 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
931
+213 (+30%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 1,029
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 29.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 931 | 59.6 | 15.6:1 | 62% (575) |
| 2023-24 | 940 | 61.6 | 15.3:1 | 72% (673) |
| 2022-23 | 978 | 62.1 | 15.8:1 | 70% (684) |
| 2020-21 | 718 | 24 | 29.9:1 | 50% (359) |
| 2017-18 | 999 | 52.7 | 19.0:1 | 63% (633) |
| 2015-16 | 966 | 45 | 21.5:1 | 62% (602) |
| 2010-11 | 904 | 49 | 18.4:1 | 57% (513) |
| 2000-01 | 1,105 | 62 | 17.8:1 | 30% (328) |
| 1990-91 | 1,029 | 59 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Brooklyn Middle STEAM School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (999 to 931); teachers up 13% (52.7 to 59.6).
About Brooklyn Middle STEAM School
BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota, is home to Brooklyn Middle STEAM School, a large middle-grades school. A federal count lists 931 students at the school, in grades 6 through 8. An average school in this group (middle schools in Minnesota) has about 495 students.
OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for Brooklyn Middle STEAM School. It has 31 schools and 21,138 students.
At Brooklyn Middle STEAM School, the largest share of students is Black, at 33%. The next largest groups are 31% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 10% White, and 9% multiracial. The school's Black share is 20 points above the 13% share among Hennepin County residents. Pick two students at random and there is a 75% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at the school number 59.6 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 15.6:1. On average, middle schools in Minnesota have 17.5:1, compared with 15.6:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 62% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Hennepin County is 43%.
Measured against Minnesota public middle schools, Brooklyn Middle STEAM School receives a C-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
After adjusting for student poverty, Brooklyn Middle STEAM School lands between the top and bottom 10% of Minnesota schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 26.9%; the prediction is 31.9%.
Federal survey data for Hennepin County show that the median household income is $97,653, about 54% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Hennepin County is home to 496 public schools and about 177,509 public school students.
PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOL is the closest public school, about 0.1 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Brooklyn Middle STEAM School ranks 2nd on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Brooklyn Middle STEAM School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School's enrollment climbed from 718 in 2020-21 to 931 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 15.6:1, from 29.9:1.
The Brooklyn Middle STEAM School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MAPLE GROVE SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,453 students
- OSSEO SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,289 students
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOLHigh · 2,061 students
- Maple Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,598 students
- Osseo Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,128 students
- FERNBROOK ELEMENTARYElementary · 952 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN PARK
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOLHigh · 2,061 students
- Athlos Leadership AcademyElementary · 807 students
- EDINBROOK ELEMENTARYElementary · 701 students
- WOODLAND ELEMENTARYElementary · 609 students
- Monroe Elementary School - MSEElementary · 553 students
- EXCELL ACADEMY CHARTERElementary · 548 students
Nearby schools
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOL0.1 mi · 2,061
- Early Childhood Special Education0.4 mi · 404
- BIRCH GROVE SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS0.7 mi · 460
- Zanewood Community School STEAM0.8 mi · 317
- PALMER LAKE ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 493
- North View Middle School0.9 mi · 509
Frequently asked questions
About Brooklyn Middle STEAM SchoolHow many students attend Brooklyn Middle STEAM School?
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School enrolls approximately 931 students in grades 06-08.
Is Brooklyn Middle STEAM School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Brooklyn Middle STEAM School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Brooklyn Middle STEAM School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Brooklyn Middle STEAM School?
At Brooklyn Middle STEAM School, the student body is approximately 10% White, 16% Hispanic, 33% Black, 31% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Brooklyn Middle STEAM School?
Brooklyn Middle STEAM School is overseen by OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Hennepin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.