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What's the most underrated thing about MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
557
Elementary
DISTRICT 532 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH WASHINGTON COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 273381002306
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY
9105 LAKE RD, WOODBURY, MN 55125 · (651) 425-4901 · Washington County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL557 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 54% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
98 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 121 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 111 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (70) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (111).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
59.0%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
60.4%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 60 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.6%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 56% 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%.
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 MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY's state test result (54.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY this school | 557 | 17.6% | 54.0% |
| GLEASON LAKE ELEMENTARY PLYMOUTH | 604 | 18.9% | 70.9% |
| Lincoln K-8 School ROCHESTER | 506 | 17.0% | 55.7% |
| CREEK VALLEY ELEMENTARY EDINA | 586 | 16.2% | 65.9% |
| OAKWOOD ELEMENTARY PLYMOUTH | 545 | 20.7% | 61.5% |
| GORDON BAILEY ELEMENTARY WOODBURY | 692 | 20.4% | 47.8% |
Matched among Minnesota elementary 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 MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #257 of 844 | #15 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #260 of 844 | #13 of 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #222 of 844 | #13 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 557 | #220 of 1,130 | #16 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #627 of 769 | #22 of 36 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.8% | #302 of 796 | #21 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.6% | #864 of 942 | #27 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #110 of 499 | #2 of 17 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
557
-110 (-16%) vs 2020
-43% since 2000-01, when it was 979
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 557 | 34.9 | 15.9:1 | 18% (98) |
| 2023-24 | 583 | 33.9 | 17.2:1 | 19% (110) |
| 2022-23 | 586 | 35.3 | 16.6:1 | 19% (111) |
| 2020-21 | 667 | 43 | 15.5:1 | 9% (61) |
| 2017-18 | 728 | 48.3 | 15.1:1 | 10% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 730 | 44 | 16.6:1 | 14% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 811 | 49 | 16.6:1 | 8% (65) |
| 2000-01 | 979 | 53 | 18.5:1 | 2% (15) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (728 to 557); teachers down 28% (48.3 to 34.9).
About MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY runs as a large elementary school in WOODBURY, Minnesota. There are 557 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Minnesota, the average enrollment is about 344.
South Washington County Schools counts 19,578 students in its 28 schools, and MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is one of them.
White students are 63% of those enrolled at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY. Next come 11% Asian, 10% multiracial, 8% Black, and 7% Hispanic. That compares with about 78% White among all Washington County residents. A diversity index of 57% means there is a 57% chance two randomly chosen students at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY are from different groups.
The school has 34.9 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 15.9 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Minnesota average 13.7:1, 2.2 fewer students per teacher than here. Of all students at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY, 18% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 26% average among public schools in Washington County.
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 54% of Minnesota public elementary schools.
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 54.0% is 1.6 points below the 55.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the wider Washington County area, the median household earns about $115,345 a year, about 49% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY shares Washington County with 102 other public schools.
The closest school to MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL, located about 0.3 miles away. MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Local comparison: MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY ranks 8th of 9 nearby schools, at 54.0% versus a 60.7% average.
NCES describes the area around MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 557, down from 667 in 2020-21.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
276,238
Census ACS
Median income
$115,345
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
103
46,313 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Washington County Schools
- EAST RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- Park High SchoolHigh · 1,992 students
- Woodbury High SchoolHigh · 1,943 students
- LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,165 students
- WOODBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,160 students
- COTTAGE GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,005 students
Other schools in WOODBURY
- EAST RIDGE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,072 students
- Woodbury High SchoolHigh · 1,943 students
- LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,165 students
- WOODBURY MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,160 students
- LIBERTY RIDGE ELEMENTARYElementary · 801 students
- Valley Crossing ElementaryElementary · 734 students
Other Middleton Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Middleton Elementary. MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is the largest of the 4.
- Middleton Elementary SchoolSherwood, OR · 395 students
- Middleton ElementaryMiddleton, TN · 349 students
- Middleton Elementary SchoolMiddleton, NH · 155 students
Nearby schools
- LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.3 mi · 1,165
- MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY0.9 mi · 720
- Valley Crossing Elementary1.1 mi · 734
- RED ROCK ELEMENTARY1.3 mi · 596
- EAST RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL1.4 mi · 2,072
- Woodbury High School2.0 mi · 1,943
Frequently asked questions
About MIDDLETON ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY?
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 557 students in grades KG-05.
Is MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY an elementary, middle, or high school?
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is approximately 15.9:1 (35 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY?
Student demographics at MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY are roughly 63% White, 7% Hispanic, 8% Black, 11% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY in?
MIDDLETON ELEMENTARY is part of South Washington County Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.