Summary:
Middle schools in the Blue Earth Area School District come down to a single campus: Blue Earth Area Middle, located at 315 E 6th St in Blue Earth, Minnesota. It serves grades 6 and 7 with an enrollment of 163 students, making it a small school with a small-town southern Minnesota setting. Because it is the only middle school in the district, all comparisons here are between this school and its district and state benchmarks.
Blue Earth Area Middle has held a 2-star rating for three consecutive years (2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26). Its current rank of 379 out of 546 places it in the 31st percentile, below the Blue Earth Area School District's 52nd percentile and 3-star rating. In 2025–26, 24.1% of students were proficient in math (state: 44.9%) and 36.9% in reading (state: 48.6%). At the grade level, 6th grade math came in at 22.1% and 7th grade math at 25.9%; 6th grade reading was 38.2% and 7th grade reading 35.7%. Reading is the relative strength — 7th grade reading's 7.8-point gap to the state is the narrowest of any reported result — while math is the clearest weakness.
The most notable change is a sharp reading decline, from 44.59% in 2024–25 to 36.9% in 2025–26, a drop of 7.69 points. Math improved slightly over the same period, from 22.29% to 24.1%, but remains well below both district and state levels. Context matters here: 50.31% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is a favorable 11.4, which may allow for targeted support. With only 163 students, a handful of students can move percentages by several points, and the reading exam label changed from MCA-III to MCA-IV between years, so that year-over-year reading comparison should be viewed with some caution.
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