ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL

ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL, a sizable middle-grades school in DULUTH, Minnesota, run under DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 1,037 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 109% above the state mean of about 495.

DULUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 31 schools in total, collectively educating 8,994 students. ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL records that nearly all students (87%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 6% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against St. Louis County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.0%; this one delivers 53.2%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Louis County indicate the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 100 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students).

Nearest neighbor: ALC SWS Ordean East, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORDEAN EAST MIDDLE SCHOOL has expanded 7%, going from 973 students in 2018 to 1,037 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 18.4:1 in 2025.

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