Public school / Middle
Dakota Meadows Middle School
North Mankato, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 271878002046
- District
- Mankato Public School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Dakota Meadows Middle School is a public middle school in North Mankato, Minnesota, run by Mankato Public School District. It enrols 878 students — the 11464th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
878
Teachers
48.0
Students per teacher
18.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
34.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Mankato Public School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Mankato East Senior High1,293 students
- 2Mankato West Senior High1,223 students
- 3Prairie Winds Middle School954 students
- 4Dakota Meadows Middle School878 students
- 5Hoover Elementary503 students
- 6Rosa Parks Elementary434 students
- 7Monroe Elementary428 students
- 8Franklin Elementary414 students
- Enrollment+191.7%
- Teachers+128.6%
- Students per teacher+25.3%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−29.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory