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Enrollment
692
Middle
DISTRICT 774 · STATE 495
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271182000570
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
4200 208TH ST W, FARMINGTON, MN 55024 · (651) 460-1500 · Dakota County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL692 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 18% of Minnesota public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
26%
182 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 228 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 232 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 232 | 34% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
47.1%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
32.6%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.9%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 51% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (36.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 692 | 26.3% | 36.2% |
| OLSON MIDDLE BLOOMINGTON | 762 | 26.4% | 50.0% |
| KENWOOD TRAIL MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKEVILLE | 854 | 23.3% | 49.9% |
| Anthony Middle MINNEAPOLIS | 727 | 24.9% | 59.5% |
| ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL FARMINGTON | 855 | 22.5% | 37.3% |
| Oak-Land Middle School LAKE ELMO | 946 | 22.7% | 50.8% |
Matched among Minnesota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Dakota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #164 of 245 | #14 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #166 of 245 | #14 of 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.1% | #137 of 245 | #13 of 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 692 | #103 of 306 | #15 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #76 of 210 | #4 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.3% | #83 of 216 | #9 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.3% | #187 of 252 | #10 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.7% | #99 of 129 | #6 of 8 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
692
-110 (-14%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 559
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 22.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 692 | 43.6 | 15.9:1 | 26% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 687 | 42.4 | 16.2:1 | 28% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 721 | 49.2 | 14.7:1 | 27% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 802 | 36 | 22.3:1 | 14% (110) |
| 2017-18 | 742 | 44.9 | 16.5:1 | 14% (103) |
| 2015-16 | 786 | 48 | 16.4:1 | 18% (138) |
| 2010-11 | 767 | 48 | 16.0:1 | 16% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 658 | 43 | 15.3:1 | 12% (76) |
| 1990-91 | 559 | 31 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (742 to 692); teachers down 3% (44.9 to 43.6).
About LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public middle school run by FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in FARMINGTON, Minnesota. Federal data show 692 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 495 students for middle schools in Minnesota.
FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. It has 9 schools and 6,458 students.
About 63% of the student body at LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is White. Smaller groups are 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 74% of Dakota County residents are White. A diversity index of 56% means there is a 56% chance two randomly chosen students at LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL are from different groups.
Teacher count: 43.6 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.9:1. Compared with the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Minnesota, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 26%. Across public schools in Dakota County, the average is 34%.
Among Minnesota public middle schools, LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL outscored 18%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 50.9%. The school's actual rate is 36.2%, 14.8 points lower.
The county, Dakota County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $106,318 a year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Dakota County has 170 public schools with about 74,687 students, including LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL.
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 36.2% is below the 41.8% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment decreased 14% from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Students per teacher dropped from 22.3 in 2020-21 to 15.9 in 2024-25.
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Dakota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
445,771
Census ACS
Median income
$106,318
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
170
74,687 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 855 students
- NORTH TRAIL ELEMENTARYElementary · 612 students
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 600 students
- RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 573 students
- FARMINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 493 students
Other schools in FARMINGTON
- FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 855 students
- NORTH TRAIL ELEMENTARYElementary · 612 students
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 600 students
- RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 573 students
- FARMINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 493 students
Nearby schools
- RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY0.2 mi · 573
- Great Oaks Academy - Grammar0.3 mi · 430
- ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 855
- FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY0.9 mi · 493
- AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 479
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY2.4 mi · 600
Frequently asked questions
About LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 692 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 15.9:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 63% White, 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL?
LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Dakota County.
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