Summary:
The Bemidji Public School District contains exactly one middle school: Bemidji Middle, serving grades 6–8 at 1910 Middle School Ave NW in Bemidji, Minnesota. With 967 students, a 15.6 student–teacher ratio, and 40.12% of students qualifying for free or reduced lunch, it is a single large middle school that effectively is the district's entire middle level. Families here have one local option, so the meaningful comparisons are against the state and against the school's own history rather than against a neighboring middle school.
Against the state, reading is the clear strength: 49.9% proficient in 2025–26, above both the state (48.6) and the district (48.8), and it also topped the state in 2024–25 (50.05 vs. 49.59). Math reached 41.7%, below the state's 44.9 and the district's 44, while science at 17.4% trails the state's 25.5% — though it edges the state's grade-8 science figure of 16.7%. Grade by grade, 6th and 8th graders beat the state in math and reading, but 7th grade fell below in both (36.5 vs. 40.3 in math; 40.2 vs. 43.5 in reading), a dip worth asking the school about.
Trend-wise, reading held essentially flat (50.05 to 49.9) while the surrounding district improved, and math slipped 2.42 points against a roughly stable state. Science rose from 15.34% to 17.4% — genuine progress, but still fewer than one in five students proficient. The school ranks 167th of 546 Minnesota middle schools (69th percentile, 3 stars), far above the district's 37th percentile and 2 stars, though its percentile has eased from 72 to 69 over three years. Reading and science sit roughly 32.5 points apart within the same building.
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