HUTCHINSON MIDDLE

HUTCHINSON MIDDLE operates as a mid-tier middle school in HUTCHINSON, Minnesota, overseen by HUTCHINSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Current enrollment sits at 535 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Within HUTCHINSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 10 schools and 2,722 students, HUTCHINSON MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HUTCHINSON MIDDLE logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school logs 10% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at HUTCHINSON MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against McLeod County (around 35%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HUTCHINSON MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -0.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for McLeod County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,084 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. HUTCHINSON MIDDLE is one of 22 public schools in McLeod County (combined enrollment of about 5,121 students).

HUTCHINSON MIDDLE SCHOOL A.L.C. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HUTCHINSON MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HUTCHINSON MIDDLE at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at HUTCHINSON MIDDLE has edged down 20%, going from 666 students in 2018 to 535 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 89% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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