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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Middle

The Fair School - Crystal

Crystal, Minnesota

NCES ID
273178004952
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

The Fair School - Crystal is a public middle school in Crystal, Minnesota, run by Robbinsdale Public School District. It enrols 245 students — the 72869th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.

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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

245students

72869th nationally, tied with 130

Teachers

9.0FTE

84650th nationally, tied with 1,296

Students per teacher

27.2students

91627th nationally, tied with 43

Free or reduced-price lunch

52.2%percent

48343rd nationally, tied with 88

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.

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Within Robbinsdale 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Robbinsdale Armstrong Senior High1,832 students
  2. 2Robbinsdale Cooper Senior High1,630 students
  3. 3Plymouth Middle836 students
  4. 4Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion El.700 students
  5. 5Robbinsdale Middle632 students
  6. 6Meadow Lake Elementary513 students
  7. 7Northport Elementary483 students
  8. 8Forest Elementary453 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Minnesota median across 2,771 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−18.6%
  • Teachers−57.1%
  • Students per teacher+86.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+6.7%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.