FARIBAULT MIDDLE

As a mid-tier intermediate school in FARIBAULT, Minnesota, FARIBAULT MIDDLE enrolls 594 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within FARIBAULT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.

FARIBAULT MIDDLE is one of 10 schools operated by FARIBAULT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that serves 3,106 students overall.

Looking at the student body, FARIBAULT MIDDLE shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 33% White, 23% Black, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 11% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, FARIBAULT MIDDLE shows 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Rice County runs at roughly 46%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, FARIBAULT MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.8%; this one delivers 19.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Rice County put the typical household earns roughly $83,181 per year, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. FARIBAULT MIDDLE is one of 40 public schools in Rice County (combined enrollment of about 8,301 students).

Falcons Online Academy-HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FARIBAULT MIDDLE. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), FARIBAULT MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 21.8%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 813 students in 2018 compared to 594 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 53% to 33% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.