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Which teacher or staff member at North View Middle School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
509
Middle
DISTRICT 849 · STATE 495
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 272520001214
North View Middle School
5869 69TH AVE N, BROOKLYN PARK, MN 55429 · (763) 585-7200 · Hennepin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL509 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Minnesota public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
403 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 161 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 187 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 161 | 32% |
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · 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
24.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
14.7%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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
18.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.5%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 North View Middle School
North View Middle School's state test result (18.1% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| North View Middle School this school | 509 | 79.2% | 18.1% |
| ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE ROBBINSDALE | 567 | 77.6% | 18.6% |
| Brooklyn Center Middle School BROOKLYN CENTER | 334 | 82.3% | 8.0% |
| Olson Middle MINNEAPOLIS | 329 | 76.6% | 9.4% |
| Anwatin Middle MINNEAPOLIS | 334 | 79.0% | 9.1% |
| Community of Peace Academy Middle SAINT PAUL | 279 | 78.5% | 19.6% |
Matched among Minnesota middle 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 North View Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #228 of 245 | #38 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #224 of 245 | #36 of 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #228 of 245 | #37 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 509 | #144 of 306 | #29 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #10 of 210 | #6 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #25 of 216 | #8 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.2% | #19 of 252 | #10 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.5% | #25 of 129 | #8 of 24 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
509
+103 (+25%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 939
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 23.9:1
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 | 509 | 40.4 | 12.6:1 | 79% (403) |
| 2023-24 | 447 | 42.7 | 10.5:1 | 86% (386) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 43.9 | 9.2:1 | 84% (340) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 17 | 23.9:1 | 61% (248) |
| 2017-18 | 648 | 53 | 12.2:1 | 83% (540) |
| 2015-16 | 659 | 49 | 13.4:1 | 81% (534) |
| 2010-11 | 647 | 49 | 13.2:1 | 67% (436) |
| 2000-01 | 1,048 | 65 | 16.1:1 | 43% (454) |
| 1990-91 | 939 | 61 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for North View Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (648 to 509); teachers down 24% (53 to 40.4).
About North View Middle School
North View Middle School is classified as a middle-grades school. It is located in BROOKLYN PARK, Minnesota. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 509 students in grades 6 through 8.
OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT has 31 schools and 21,138 students, and North View Middle School is one of those schools.
Black students form the largest group at North View Middle School, 42% of enrollment. Other groups make up 23% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% White. County-wide, 13% of Hennepin County residents are Black. North View Middle School has a diversity index of 72%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its teaching staff equals 40.4 full-time positions, a ratio of 12.6:1. For comparison, middle schools in Minnesota average 17.5:1. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility, a common measure of family income, is 79%. That rate is above the 43% average among public schools in Hennepin County.
North View Middle School is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 15% of Minnesota public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with North View Middle School's lunch-eligibility share in Minnesota is predicted to score 22.5%. North View Middle School scores 18.1%, 4.5 points below that line.
Among Hennepin County residents, median household income is about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 496 public schools in Hennepin County, with a combined enrollment of about 177,509.
Nearest public school: Zanewood Community School STEAM, about 0.2 miles away. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. North View Middle School is 6th of 8 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, North View Middle School went from 406 students to 509. Its ratio of students to teachers was 23.9:1 in 2020-21, and 12.6:1 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- MAPLE GROVE SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,453 students
- OSSEO SENIOR HIGHHigh · 2,289 students
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOLHigh · 2,061 students
- Maple Grove Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,598 students
- Osseo Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,128 students
- FERNBROOK ELEMENTARYElementary · 952 students
Other schools in BROOKLYN PARK
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOLHigh · 2,061 students
- Brooklyn Middle STEAM SchoolMiddle · 931 students
- Athlos Leadership AcademyElementary · 807 students
- EDINBROOK ELEMENTARYElementary · 701 students
- WOODLAND ELEMENTARYElementary · 609 students
- Monroe Elementary School - MSEElementary · 553 students
Nearby schools
- Zanewood Community School STEAM0.2 mi · 317
- FAIR OAKS ELEMENTARY0.4 mi · 396
- EXCELL ACADEMY CHARTER0.4 mi · 548
- Early Childhood Special Education0.6 mi · 404
- PARK CENTER IB WORLD SCHOOL0.8 mi · 2,061
- Brooklyn Middle STEAM School0.9 mi · 931
Frequently asked questions
About North View Middle SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at North View Middle School?
North View Middle School enrolls approximately 509 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does North View Middle School serve?
North View Middle School serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at North View Middle School?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at North View Middle School.
What is the student diversity at North View Middle School?
Student demographics at North View Middle School are roughly 6% White, 21% Hispanic, 42% Black, 23% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees North View Middle School?
North View Middle School is overseen by OSSEO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Hennepin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.