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What's something WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
817
Middle
DISTRICT 998 · STATE 495
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 274216001762
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE
12000 RIDGEMOUNT AVE W, PLYMOUTH, MN 55441 · (763) 745-6201 · Hennepin County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL817 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Minnesota public middle schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.5:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
182 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 48%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 341 | 42% |
| Grade 7 | 246 | 30% |
| Grade 8 | 230 | 28% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
72.6%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
64.0%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.1%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE's state test result (64.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE this school | 817 | 22.3% | 64.4% |
| WAYZATA WEST MIDDLE WAYZATA | 836 | 16.4% | 62.1% |
| OLTMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL COTTAGE GROVE | 956 | 29.6% | 37.5% |
| WOODBURY MIDDLE SCHOOL WOODBURY | 1,160 | 24.2% | 42.5% |
| CENTURY MIDDLE SCHOOL LAKEVILLE | 950 | 13.6% | 53.8% |
| Oak-Land Middle School LAKE ELMO | 946 | 22.7% | 50.8% |
Matched among Minnesota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Hennepin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.4% | #10 of 245 | #6 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #18 of 245 | #9 of 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.6% | #10 of 245 | #5 of 46 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 817 | #77 of 306 | #16 of 53 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #168 of 210 | #31 of 43 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.5% | #59 of 216 | #23 of 43 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.3% | #205 of 252 | #39 of 47 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.7% | #12 of 66 | #4 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
817
+166 (+25%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 807
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 817 | 42.8 | 19.1:1 | 22% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 672 | 35.2 | 19.1:1 | 22% (149) |
| 2022-23 | 609 | 41.4 | 14.7:1 | 15% (92) |
| 2020-21 | 651 | 37 | 17.6:1 | 9% (60) |
| 2017-18 | 666 | 48.5 | 13.7:1 | 11% (70) |
| 2015-16 | 681 | 48 | 14.2:1 | 14% (98) |
| 2010-11 | 748 | 48 | 15.6:1 | 20% (146) |
| 2000-01 | 726 | 40 | 18.1:1 | 6% (46) |
| 1990-91 | 807 | 61 | 13.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (666 to 817); teachers down 12% (48.5 to 42.8).
About WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE is a high-enrollment middle-grades school in PLYMOUTH, Minnesota, (ZIP code 55441). It teaches 817 students in grades 6 through 8. Middle schools in Minnesota have about 495 students on average; enrollment here is 65% higher.
Federal data list 16 schools in WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 12,951 students enrolled.
More than half of the students at WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE are White (55%). The rest of enrollment is 21% Asian, 11% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Hennepin County's population at about 66%. The diversity index for WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE is 63%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 42.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 19.1:1. The school's 19.1:1 compares with an average of 17.5:1 for middle schools in Minnesota. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 22%. The gap from the 43% average for public schools in Hennepin County is 21 points.
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 96% of Minnesota public middle schools.
Test results at WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE are 11.3 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (64.4% actual, 53.1% predicted).
Census data for Hennepin County show the median household earns about $97,653 a year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE, Hennepin County has 496 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, School #535 is about 0.2 miles from WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 5 schools in the immediate area with test results, WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE ranks 1st on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The school's student count increased 25% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. By 2024-25, the school had 19.1 students per teacher, compared with 17.6 in 2020-21.
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Hennepin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,269,496
Census ACS
Median income
$97,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
496
177,509 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- WAYZATA WEST MIDDLEMiddle · 836 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
- Meadow Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 762 students
Other schools in PLYMOUTH
- WAYZATA HIGHHigh · 3,781 students
- ROBBINSDALE ARMSTRONG SENIOR HIGHHigh · 1,840 students
- WAYZATA CENTRAL MIDDLEMiddle · 1,342 students
- North Woods Elementary SchoolElementary · 775 students
- GREENWOOD ELEMENTARYElementary · 762 students
- Meadow Ridge Elementary SchoolElementary · 762 students
Nearby schools
- School #5350.2 mi · 10
- SUNSET HILL ELEMENTARY0.6 mi · 712
- L.H. TANGLEN ELEMENTARY1.6 mi · 521
- Tier One1.6 mi · 25
- Tier Three1.6 mi · 226
- Tier Two1.6 mi · 274
Frequently asked questions
About WAYZATA EAST MIDDLEHow large is WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE?
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE enrolls approximately 817 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE serve?
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE?
Approximately 19.1:1 students per teacher at WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE.
How diverse is WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE?
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE reports a student body of 55% White, 7% Hispanic, 11% Black, 21% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE?
WAYZATA EAST MIDDLE is overseen by WAYZATA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT in Hennepin County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.