SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE

SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE is a roomy middle-grades school in EDINA, Minnesota, part of EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school caters to 1,021 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 106% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Across the 14 schools in EDINA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT (8,794 students total), SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE shows that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 8% Black, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. The state averages about 17.5:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hennepin County (around 43%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 66.9%, a residual of +11.5 points.

In the area at large, Hennepin County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hennepin County runs 496 public schools (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students), of which SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: SPECIAL ED-NON PUBLIC, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SOUTH VIEW MIDDLE comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 1,007 students in 2018 compared to 1,021 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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