OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a substantial 6-8 campus in COTTAGE GROVE, Minnesota, OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL serves 956 students from grades 6 through 8, operated by South Washington County Schools. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 93% bigger than that benchmark.

OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 28 schools operated by South Washington County Schools, a district that works with 19,578 students overall.

Looking at the student body, OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 14% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Washington County as a whole is about 78% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 37.5%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $115,345 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Washington County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students), OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

COTTAGE GROVE ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL has ticked up 40%, going from 681 students in 2018 to 956 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 65% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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