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What's something PLYMOUTH MIDDLE does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
749
Middle
DISTRICT 524 · STATE 495
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 273178001333
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE
10011 36TH AVE N, PLYMOUTH, MN 55441 · (763) 504-7100 · Hennepin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL749 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Minnesota public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.7:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
370 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 257 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 253 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 239 | 32% |
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
40.4%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
23.5%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.5%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like PLYMOUTH MIDDLE
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE's state test result (29.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLYMOUTH MIDDLE this school | 749 | 49.4% | 29.6% |
| Valley Middle School of STEM APPLE VALLEY | 1,090 | 44.7% | 35.5% |
| Hidden River Middle School SAINT PAUL | 640 | 48.1% | 36.4% |
| Hopkins West Middle School MINNETONKA | 574 | 43.9% | 32.9% |
| The FAIR School - Crystal CRYSTAL | 439 | 45.6% | 40.0% |
| Edgewood Middle School MOUNDS VIEW | 639 | 48.4% | 39.9% |
Matched among Minnesota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where PLYMOUTH MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.6% | #195 of 245 | #26 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #199 of 245 | #28 of 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #189 of 245 | #26 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 749 | #89 of 306 | #19 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #139 of 210 | #26 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.5% | #26 of 216 | #9 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 49.4% | #68 of 252 | #22 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.1% | #21 of 129 | #7 of 24 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
749
-257 (-26%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 1,115
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 27.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 749 | 41.7 | 18.0:1 | 49% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 789 | 39.4 | 20.0:1 | 46% (363) |
| 2022-23 | 836 | 28.3 | 29.6:1 | 50% (417) |
| 2020-21 | 1,006 | 36 | 27.9:1 | 38% (386) |
| 2017-18 | 974 | 56.3 | 17.3:1 | 40% (393) |
| 2015-16 | 1,347 | 73 | 18.4:1 | 38% (516) |
| 2010-11 | 1,270 | 65 | 19.5:1 | 34% (434) |
| 2000-01 | 1,306 | 76 | 17.2:1 | 24% (310) |
| 1990-91 | 1,115 | 65 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for PLYMOUTH MIDDLE.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (974 to 749); teachers down 26% (56.3 to 41.7).
About PLYMOUTH MIDDLE
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE is a middle school in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, and it is part of ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. Federal data show 749 students enrolled in grades 6 through 8 in 2024-25. On average, middle schools in Minnesota enroll around 495, and this school is 51% larger than that mark.
ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 10,821 students, and its 25 schools include PLYMOUTH MIDDLE.
White students make up 42% of enrollment at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 26% Black, 18% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Hennepin County's population at about 66%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 71, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 18.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE, which has 41.7. The average ratio among middle schools in Minnesota is similar, at 17.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE is about 49%.
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 17% of Minnesota public middle schools.
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (29.6%) and its predicted rate (38.5%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Minnesota schools.
The county, Hennepin County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $97,653, about 54% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 496, with about 177,509 students.
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE's nearest public school is FAIR School Pilgrim Lane (about 0.3 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 36.6%; PLYMOUTH MIDDLE's is 29.6%, ranking 5th of 7.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
The school shrank from 1,006 students in 2020-21 to 749 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (18.0:1) than in 2020-21 (27.9:1).
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Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- ROBBINSDALE COOPER SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,396 students
- Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion El.Elementary · 733 students
- ROBBINSDALE MIDDLEMiddle · 567 students
- MEADOW LAKE ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
- NORTHPORT ELEMENTARYElementary · 488 students
Other schools in PLYMOUTH
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- WAYZATA EAST MIDDLEMiddle · 817 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
Nearby schools
- FAIR School Pilgrim Lane0.3 mi · 403
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGH0.5 mi · 1,840
- SONNESYN ELEMENTARY0.8 mi · 313
- ZACHARY LANE ELEMENTARY1.1 mi · 428
- Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion El.1.1 mi · 733
- Robbinsdale Shared Time Program1.5 mi · 6
Frequently asked questions
About PLYMOUTH MIDDLEWhat is the total enrollment at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE?
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE enrolls approximately 749 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does PLYMOUTH MIDDLE serve?
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE serves grades 06-08.
How many teachers does PLYMOUTH MIDDLE have?
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE employs 42 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.0:1.
What is the student diversity at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE?
Student demographics at PLYMOUTH MIDDLE are roughly 42% White, 18% Hispanic, 26% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is PLYMOUTH MIDDLE in?
PLYMOUTH MIDDLE is part of ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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