ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL

ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intermediate school of sprawling scale in ROGERS, Minnesota, operated by Elk River Public School District, teacheing 1,077 students in grades 5 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 118% above that benchmark.

Elk River Public School District runs 29 schools in total, collectively educating 14,633 students. ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Hennepin County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 27.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 59.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Hennepin County shows 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 ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

ROGERS SENIOR HIGH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ROGERS MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,084 students in 2018 compared to 1,077 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 85% to 75% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 27.7:1 today.

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