PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in CHASKA, Minnesota, PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is a close-knit junior high, part of EASTERN CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL. It serves 418 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 19 schools in EASTERN CARVER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOL (9,274 students total), PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of -2.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Carver County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $125,946 per year, about 50% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 57 public schools in Carver County (combined enrollment of about 18,076 students).

CHASKA HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. PIONEER RIDGE MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 418).

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