Willow Creek Middle School

Willow Creek Middle School, a substantial 6-8 campus in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, run under Rochester Public School District, caters to 864 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 75% bigger than the state mean of about 495.

Willow Creek Middle School is one of 44 schools operated by Rochester Public School District, a district that works with 17,171 students overall.

Demographically, Willow Creek Middle School logs that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest looks like 20% Hispanic, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Olmsted County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Willow Creek Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 36.9%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Olmsted County shows median household earnings sit near $95,406, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Olmsted County's 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students), Willow Creek Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Montessori at Franklin Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Willow Creek Middle School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.7%.

Willow Creek Middle School operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Willow Creek Middle School's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 1,116 (now 864).

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