Red Lake Middle School

Red Lake Middle School is a modestly sized middle school in RED LAKE, Minnesota, part of RED LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 268 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so Red Lake Middle School sits 46% below that benchmark.

Within RED LAKE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 1,519 students, Red Lake Middle School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Red Lake Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Native American (96%). The remainder comes out to 3% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Beltrami County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Red Lake Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 20.3%; actual is 5.6%, a gap of -14.8 points.

In the area at large, Beltrami County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,975, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Beltrami County runs 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,088 students), of which Red Lake Middle School is one.

RED LAKE ALTERNATIVE LEARNING is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Red Lake Middle School. On composite proficiency, Red Lake Middle School comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 8.4%.

Red Lake Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Looking at the recent track record. Red Lake Middle School's enrollment has edged up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 236 (now 268). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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