NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL

NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the expansive 6-8 campuss in NEW PRAGUE, Minnesota, operated by NEW PRAGUE AREA SCHOOLS, with 926 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 87% above that benchmark.

Within NEW PRAGUE AREA SCHOOLS, which oversees 8 schools and 3,980 students, NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On demographics, NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Scott County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Scott County (around 28%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.4%.

Across the wider county, Scott County reports that median household income runs about $119,314, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Scott County runs 66 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students), of which NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: CENTRAL EDUCATION CAMPUS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, NEW PRAGUE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 959 students in 2018 compared to 926 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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