FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE

As a large middle school in APPLE VALLEY, Minnesota, FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE enrolls 1,088 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE sits 120% bigger than that benchmark.

Within ROSEMOUNT-APPLE VALLEY-EAGAN, which oversees 36 schools and 29,224 students, FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Demographically, FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school logs 16% Hispanic, 12% Black, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.5:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 31% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.4%, the actual is 49.8%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the area at large, Dakota County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at FALCON RIDGE MIDDLE has showed little movement, going from 1,115 students in 2018 to 1,088 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 17.5:1 today.

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