Kellogg Middle School

Kellogg Middle School operates as a high-enrollment junior high in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, run under Rochester Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 769 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 55% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Across the 44 schools in Rochester Public School District (17,171 students total), Kellogg Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Kellogg Middle School reports that White students make up the majority at 55%. Beyond that, the school lists 16% Black, 14% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Kellogg Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 38.8%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Olmsted County) logs that median household income runs about $95,406, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Kellogg Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Churchill Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kellogg Middle School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kellogg Middle School has decreased 15%, going from 907 students in 2018 to 769 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 62% to 55% over that span.

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