Prior Lake-Savage Middle School

Prior Lake-Savage Middle School, a heavily attended junior high in PRIOR LAKE, Minnesota, operated by Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, instructs 2,025 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 309% above the state mean of about 495.

Across the 14 schools in Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools (8,788 students total), Prior Lake-Savage Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Prior Lake-Savage Middle School shows that the largest single group is White, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian, 6% Hispanic. Compared to Scott County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Prior Lake-Savage Middle School lists 105 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Scott County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Prior Lake-Savage Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.1%; this one delivers 51.4%.

In the broader community, Scott County reports that the typical household earns roughly $119,314 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Prior Lake-Savage Middle School is one of 66 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,041 students).

Laker Online is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Prior Lake-Savage Middle School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Prior Lake-Savage Middle School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 103%: 998 students in 2018 compared to 2,025 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 80% to 76% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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