DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a close-knit middle school in EYOTA, Minnesota, DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 237 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by DOVER-EYOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. That puts it 52% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

DOVER-EYOTA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,057 students; DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 21% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Olmsted County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 54.0%; actual is 35.8%, a gap of -18.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Olmsted County shows 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%. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DOVER-EYOTA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. DOVER-EYOTA MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 284 (now 237). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 95% to 89%.

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