PLYMOUTH MIDDLE

PLYMOUTH MIDDLE is a substantial 6-8 campus in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, run under ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 749 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 51% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

PLYMOUTH MIDDLE is one of 25 schools operated by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 10,821 students overall.

In terms of who attends, PLYMOUTH MIDDLE logs that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 66%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, PLYMOUTH MIDDLE has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 49% of students at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, PLYMOUTH MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.5%, the actual is 29.6%, a residual of -8.9 points.

Across the wider county, Hennepin County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,653 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. PLYMOUTH MIDDLE is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is FAIR School Pilgrim Lane, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, PLYMOUTH MIDDLE comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 36.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE has ticked down 23%, going from 974 students in 2018 to 749 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 51% to 42%.

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