Lyle Middle

Located at 700 2ND STREET, in LYLE, Minnesota, Lyle Middle is a rural-scale intermediate school that enrolls 99 students (grades 5 through 8), one of the schools within LYLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 80% below the state mean of about 495.

LYLE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 306 students. Lyle Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lyle Middle logs that the largest single group is White, at 77% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Lyle Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lyle Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.1%; this one comes in at 18.3%, -15.8 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Mower County shows median household earnings sit near $73,074, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Mower County's 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,434 students), Lyle Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lyle High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lyle Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lyle Middle at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 60.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

On the community side, the feed for Lyle Middle typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.