Northeast Middle

Northeast Middle is one of the moderately sized middle schools in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, part of Minneapolis Public School District, with 541 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Within Minneapolis Public School District, which oversees 86 schools and 29,928 students, Northeast Middle is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Northeast Middle lists that the largest single group is Black at 29%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 7% Native American. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 13% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Northeast Middle has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northeast Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 20.8%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Hennepin County put median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Northeast Middle is one campus in the mix.

Waite Park Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northeast Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.9%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Northeast Middle's enrollment has edged up 4% since 2018, when it stood at 518 (now 541). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 41% to 29% over that span.

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