Willmar Middle School

As a well-populated middle-grades school in WILLMAR, Minnesota, Willmar Middle School teaches 842 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Willmar Public School District. That puts it 70% above the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Across the 12 schools in Willmar Public School District (4,218 students total), Willmar Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Willmar Middle School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 33% White, 14% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Kandiyohi County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Willmar Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.4%, the actual is 38.1%, a residual of +6.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kandiyohi County put the typical household earns roughly $76,592 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Kandiyohi County runs 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,213 students), of which Willmar Middle School is one.

Middle School ALC is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Willmar Middle School. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Willmar Middle School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 29.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willmar Middle School has decreased 13%, going from 964 students in 2018 to 842 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 35% to 48% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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