Public school / Middle
Horizon Middle School
Moorhead, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 272142003512
- District
- Moorhead Area Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Horizon Middle School is a public middle school in Moorhead, Minnesota, run by Moorhead Area Public Schools. It enrols 2,158 students — the 1373rd 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
2,158
Teachers
119.0
Students per teacher
18.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.2%
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 Moorhead Area Public Schools
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.
- 1Horizon Middle School2,158 students
- 2Moorhead High School1,937 students
- 3S.G. Reinertsen Elementary692 students
- 4Dorothy Dodds Elementary School658 students
- 5Ellen Hopkins Elementary643 students
- 6Robert Asp Elementary611 students
- 7Probstfield Elementary262 students
- 8Probstfield Center for Education215 students
- Enrollment+616.9%
- Teachers+466.7%
- Students per teacher+24.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.4%
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