Olson Middle

Olson Middle operates as a tight-knit 6-8 campus in MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, operated by Minneapolis Public School District. Current enrollment sits at 329 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 34% leaner than typical.

Olson Middle is one of 86 schools operated by Minneapolis Public School District, a district that caters to 29,928 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Olson Middle reports that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 77% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Olson Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 23.9%; actual is 9.4%, a gap of -14.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) records that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Hennepin County's 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), Olson Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Legacy of Dr Josie R Johnson Montes, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olson Middle. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Olson Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 15.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Olson Middle has declined 9%, going from 361 students in 2018 to 329 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 65% to 40% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 7.9:1 today.

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