Byron Middle School

As a medium-sized intermediate school in BYRON, Minnesota, Byron Middle School hosts 577 students from grades 6 through 8, part of Byron Public School District.

Byron Middle School is one of 4 schools operated by Byron Public School District, a district that educates 2,342 students overall.

On demographics, Byron Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%); the rest looks like 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Olmsted County's rate of about 35%.

With demographic context factored in, Byron Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the surrounding community, Olmsted County reports that median household income runs about $95,406, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Byron Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Byron Primary School, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Byron Middle School at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 62.8%.

Byron Middle School operates from a town-center location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Byron Middle School has ticked up 15%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 577 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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