Joseph Nicollet Middle School

Set in BURNSVILLE, Minnesota, Joseph Nicollet Middle School is a very small middle school, operated by Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools. It hosts 50 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 90% smaller than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Within Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools, which oversees 19 schools and 7,663 students, Joseph Nicollet Middle School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Joseph Nicollet Middle School logs that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 34% Black, 16% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 74%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 1.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Joseph Nicollet Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Dakota County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Joseph Nicollet Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 24.3%, a residual of -10.7 points.

In the area at large, census data for Dakota County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Joseph Nicollet Middle School is one of 170 public schools in Dakota County (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students).

Sky Oaks Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Joseph Nicollet Middle School operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joseph Nicollet Middle School has edged down 37%, going from 80 students in 2018 to 50 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 49% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 2.6:1 in 2018 to 1.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Joseph Nicollet Middle School community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.