WINONA MIDDLE

As a reasonably sized 6-8 campus in WINONA, Minnesota, WINONA MIDDLE educates 665 students from grades 5 through 8, one of the schools within WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so WINONA MIDDLE sits 34% bigger than that benchmark.

WINONA MIDDLE is one of 8 schools operated by WINONA AREA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that works with 2,465 students overall.

Looking at the student body, WINONA MIDDLE logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, WINONA MIDDLE has 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, WINONA MIDDLE sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.1%; this one delivers 30.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Winona County indicate median household earnings sit near $70,744, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. WINONA MIDDLE is one of 20 public schools in Winona County (combined enrollment of about 4,580 students).

RIVER VALLEY ACADEMY ALC is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around WINONA MIDDLE. On composite proficiency, WINONA MIDDLE comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. WINONA MIDDLE's enrollment has contracted 28% since 2018, when it stood at 927 (now 665). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 81% to 71%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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