NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE

Set in NEW LONDON, Minnesota, NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school, overseen by NEW LONDON-SPICER SCHOOL DISTRICT. It hosts 454 students across grades 5 through 8.

NEW LONDON-SPICER SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,518 students. NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 7% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kandiyohi County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 48.5%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kandiyohi County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,592 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE is one of 22 public schools in Kandiyohi County (combined enrollment of about 6,213 students).

The closest other public school is NEW LONDON-SPICER SR., roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. NEW LONDON-SPICER MIDDLE's enrollment has declined 6% since 2018, when it stood at 483 (now 454). White enrollment moved from 93% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.