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Maple Grove Middle School
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Maple Grove Middle School
As an expansive middle-grades school in MAPLE GROVE, Minnesota, Maple Grove Middle School educates 1,598 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Enrollment runs roughly 223% above the state mean of about 495.
OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 21,138 students. Maple Grove Middle School is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Maple Grove Middle School logs that 60% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Black, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian.
In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 28% of students at Maple Grove Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.
With demographic context factored in, Maple Grove Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -2.2 points.
In the broader community, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Maple Grove Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: CEDAR ISLAND ELEMENTARY, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Maple Grove Middle School operates from a commuter-belt location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Maple Grove Middle School has ticked down 7%, going from 1,726 students in 2018 to 1,598 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 67% to 60% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.
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