South St. Paul Middle School

South St. Paul Middle School is a middle-grades school of average-sized scale in SOUTH SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, overseen by South St. Paul Public School Dist, educateing 535 students in grades 6 through 8.

Across the 7 schools in South St. Paul Public School Dist (2,861 students total), South St. Paul Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, South St. Paul Middle School reports that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 35% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 74% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, South St. Paul Middle School shows 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 65% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dakota County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, South St. Paul Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.3%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of -1.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dakota County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,318 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Dakota County's 170 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,687 students), South St. Paul Middle School is one campus in the mix.

South St. Paul High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

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