ORONO MIDDLE

ORONO MIDDLE is a moderately sized junior high in LONG LAKE, Minnesota, operated by ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 720 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 45% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

ORONO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,987 students; ORONO MIDDLE is among them.

In terms of who attends, ORONO MIDDLE reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, ORONO MIDDLE tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.6%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Hennepin County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. ORONO MIDDLE is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

ORONO SENIOR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 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 ORONO MIDDLE at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 64.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ORONO MIDDLE has expanded 3%, going from 697 students in 2018 to 720 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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