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ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE
ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE is a 6-8 campus of average-sized scale in ROBBINSDALE, Minnesota, part of ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, educateing 567 students in grades 6 through 8.
ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE is one of 25 schools operated by ROBBINSDALE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that caters to 10,821 students overall.
In terms of who attends, ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE lists that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 21% Hispanic, 16% White, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Hennepin County's rate of about 43%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.4%, the actual is 18.6%, a residual of -4.8 points.
In the broader community, Hennepin County reports that median household income runs about $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE is one.
The FAIR School - Crystal is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ROBBINSDALE MIDDLE at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 28.4%.
Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 39%: 926 students in 2018 compared to 567 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 25% to 16% over that span.
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Hennepin County at a glance
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