Prairie View Middle School

Prairie View Middle School is an intermediate school of sprawling scale in OTSEGO, Minnesota, run under Elk River Public School District, hosting 953 students in grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 93% bigger than typical.

Elk River Public School District runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 14,633 students. Prairie View Middle School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Prairie View Middle School records that 74% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Wright County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Prairie View Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.3%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of -1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Wright County) logs that median household income runs about $107,209, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Prairie View Middle School is one of 88 public schools in Wright County (combined enrollment of about 27,879 students).

Prairie View Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prairie View Middle School. On composite proficiency, Prairie View Middle School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

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