CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL

CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a big middle school in LAKEVILLE, Minnesota, operated by Lakeville Area Schools. The school teaches 950 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 92% larger than typical.

Within Lakeville Area Schools, which oversees 21 schools and 12,025 students, CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 65%. The remainder breaks down as 15% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 14% of students at CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.8%; this one delivers 53.8%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dakota County put the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

The closest other public school is EASTVIEW ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL has remained close to its prior level, going from 933 students in 2018 to 950 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 82% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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