Byron Intermediate School

Set in BYRON, Minnesota, Byron Intermediate School is a high-enrollment primary school, one of the schools within Byron Public School District. It teaches 551 students across grades 3 through 5. That puts it 60% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Across the 4 schools in Byron Public School District (2,342 students total), Byron Intermediate School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Byron Intermediate School reports that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Olmsted County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.0:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Olmsted County's rate of about 35%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Byron Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 66.3%, a residual of +9.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Olmsted County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,406 per year, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Olmsted County runs 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), of which Byron Intermediate School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Byron Primary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Byron Intermediate School at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 57.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Byron Intermediate School's enrollment has grew 15% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 551). Over the same period, the White share fell from 90% to 86%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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