INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE

INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE operates as a well-populated middle-grades school in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minnesota, operated by INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS. Current enrollment sits at 817 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE sits 65% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 8 schools in INVER GROVE HEIGHTS SCHOOLS (3,427 students total), INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE logs that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 29% Hispanic, 13% Black, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Dakota County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 49% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Dakota County (around 34%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 31.0%, a residual of -7.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dakota County indicate median household income runs about $106,318, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

SIMLEY ALTERNATIVE PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts INVER GROVE HEIGHTS MIDDLE at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 30.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 880 students in 2018 compared to 817 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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