Public school / Middle
Owatonna Middle School
Owatonna, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 272805001227
- District
- Owatonna Public School District
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Owatonna Middle School is a public middle school in Owatonna, Minnesota, run by Owatonna Public School District. It enrols 999 students — the 8666th 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
999
Teachers
63.0
Students per teacher
15.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
48.8%
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 Owatonna 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.
- 1Owatonna Senior High1,475 students
- 2Owatonna Middle School999 students
- 3Lincoln Elementary593 students
- 4Wilson Elementary537 students
- 5Mckinley Elementary525 students
- 6Washington Elementary487 students
- 7Owatonna Ecse104 students
- 8Owatonna Alc 9-1298 students
- Enrollment+231.9%
- Teachers+200.0%
- Students per teacher+8.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−0.2%
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