Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch

Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch is one of the expansive middle-grades schools in BLAINE, Minnesota, part of SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 1,646 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 233% above typical.

Across the 12 schools in SPRING LAKE PARK PUBLIC SCHOOLS (6,113 students total), Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch records that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Anoka County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch has 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.4%; this one delivers 33.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Anoka County put the typical household earns roughly $101,869 per year, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Anoka County runs 145 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,656 students), of which Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch is one.

University Avenue Elementary - Aero is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westwood Intermediate & Middle Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 26%: 1,307 students in 2018 compared to 1,646 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 57% to 46%. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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