Middle · Minnesota
Prairie Winds Middle School
Free meals for allPrairie Winds Middle School, a public middle school in Mankato, Minnesota: grades 6–8, 887 students, 17.9 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Mankato Public School District.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 887
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.6
- Students per teacher
- 17.9
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 65% of middle schools in Minnesota
Median 16.4 · 292 schools compared
More students per teacher than 77% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 82% of middle schools in Minnesota
Median 454 · 314 schools compared
Larger than 85% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Minnesota's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Minnesota: 49%47%proficient
+1.1 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 51% of middle schools in Minnesota
Median 47% · 286 middle schools compared
854 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment III & Minnesota Test of Academic Skills; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Minnesota: 47%46%proficient
+6.0 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 65% of middle schools in Minnesota
Median 37% · 286 middle schools compared
850 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment III & Minnesota Test of Academic Skills; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Mankato Public School District.
Location
- Address
- 1200 Prairie Winds Dr, Mankato, MN 56001
- Phone
- (507)345-6625
- City or town
- Mankato
- County
- Blue Earth County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Central Middle School ALCAlternativeFree meals for all | 6–8 | 0 | — | — | — |
Dakota Meadows Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 852 | 19.1 | 54% | 49% |
| 5–8 | 617 | 18.3 | 56% | 41% | |
| 4–6 | 380 | 12.7 | 49% | 42% | |
Waseca Middle Level ALCAlternative | 7–8 | 5 | — | — | — |
| 7–8 | 280 | 18.2 | 46% | 42% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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