RPS Online Middle School

RPS Online Middle School is a public middle school in ROCHESTER, Minnesota. The school serves 58 students in grades 7 through 8 in 2023-24. For comparison, middle schools in Minnesota average about 495 students.

ROCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 47 schools with 17,430 students in all.

RPS Online Middle School is 53% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 16% Black, 14% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Census estimates put the White share of Olmsted County's population at about 77%. RPS Online Middle School's diversity index is 65%, against a US figure of 70%.

The count of teachers at RPS Online Middle School is 6.3 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 8.9:1. That is 8.6 students per teacher below the 17.5:1 average for middle schools in Minnesota. Around 66% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is above the 35% average among public schools in Olmsted County.

Olmsted County has about 164,498 residents, and the median household income is $95,406, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Besides RPS Online Middle School, Olmsted County has 71 other public schools.

The school nearest to RPS Online Middle School is Pinewood Elementary School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000. RPS Online Middle School is a virtual school according to federal records.

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