RICHFIELD MIDDLE

RICHFIELD MIDDLE is one of the big middle-grades schools in RICHFIELD, Minnesota, part of RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 808 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 63% larger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

RICHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,094 students. RICHFIELD MIDDLE is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, RICHFIELD MIDDLE reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 29% White, 14% Black, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.

After controlling for student poverty, RICHFIELD MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hennepin County) shows that median household income runs about $97,653, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which RICHFIELD MIDDLE is one.

South Education Center Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RICHFIELD MIDDLE at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 43.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RICHFIELD MIDDLE has shrank 14%, going from 938 students in 2018 to 808 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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