Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School

Located at 705 MILL ST, in ZUMBROTA, Minnesota, Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School is an one-room-style middle-grades school that enrolls 194 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within Zumbrota-Mazeppa School District. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 495 students.

Across the 4 schools in Zumbrota-Mazeppa School District (1,242 students total), Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Beyond that, the school shows 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Goodhue County as a whole.

On the resource side, Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School logs 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.2%, the actual is 48.2%, a residual of -5.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Goodhue County indicate the typical household earns roughly $84,171 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Goodhue County's 36 public schools (combined enrollment of about 7,099 students), Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Zumbrota-Mazeppa Senior High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School. On composite proficiency, Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.9%.

Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Zumbrota-Mazeppa Middle School has climbed 5%, going from 185 students in 2018 to 194 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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