Round Lake-Brewster Middle School

Round Lake-Brewster Middle School is one of the rural-scale middle schools in BREWSTER, Minnesota, part of ROUND LAKE-BREWSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 118 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 76% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

ROUND LAKE-BREWSTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 495 students; Round Lake-Brewster Middle School is among them.

On demographics, Round Lake-Brewster Middle School logs that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 20% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Nobles County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. About 70% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Nobles County (around 61%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Round Lake-Brewster Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.3%; this one delivers 26.2%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Nobles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $66,101 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Round Lake-Brewster Middle School is one of 21 public schools in Nobles County (combined enrollment of about 5,284 students).

The closest other public school is Round Lake-Brewster Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Round Lake-Brewster Middle School at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 27.4%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Round Lake-Brewster Middle School has expanded 97%, going from 60 students in 2018 to 118 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 78% to 73% across the same window.

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