Pillager Middle School

Pillager Middle School, a middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campus in PILLAGER, Minnesota, operated by PILLAGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, teaches 433 students, covering grades 5 through 8.

Within PILLAGER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 3 schools and 1,324 students, Pillager Middle School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Pillager Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Cass County (around 61%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Pillager Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.2%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -1.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cass County indicate median household income runs about $68,874, about 26% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Pillager Middle School is one of 21 public schools in Cass County (combined enrollment of about 4,570 students).

PILLAGER ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Pillager Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Pillager Middle School's enrollment has climbed 26% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 433).

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