Forest Lake Area Middle School

Forest Lake Area Middle School operates as an expansive middle school in FOREST LAKE, Minnesota, overseen by Forest Lake Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 916 students spanning grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so Forest Lake Area Middle School sits 85% bigger than that benchmark.

Forest Lake Public School District comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 5,776 students; Forest Lake Area Middle School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Forest Lake Area Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 79%. The remainder consists of 8% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. Compared to Washington County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Forest Lake Area Middle School reports 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 26% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Forest Lake Area Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 41.1%, a residual of -9.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows median household income runs about $115,345, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forest Lake Area Middle School is one of 103 public schools in Washington County (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students).

Forest Lake Area High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Lake Area Middle School. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Lake Area Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 41.0%.

Forest Lake Area Middle School operates from a town-based location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Lake Area Middle School has grew 17%, going from 783 students in 2018 to 916 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 89% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

On this page, members of the Forest Lake Area Middle School community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.