Summary:
Dassel-Cokato Middle is the only middle school in Dassel-Cokato Public Schools, located in Cokato, Minnesota, and serves 576 students in grades 5 through 8. That works out to roughly 144 students per grade, with a student-teacher ratio of 14.6 and about 39 to 40 teachers.
It is one of Minnesota's top middle schools. In 2025-26 it ranked 54th of 546 schools — the 90th percentile — with a 5-star rating, a standing it has held across all three years of available rank history. Proficiency beats the state in 12 of 13 grade-level comparisons: math 56.5% vs. 44.9%, reading 57.4% vs. 48.6%, and science 27.7% vs. 25.5%. Upper-grade math is the standout, with 8th-grade math at 65.4% (23.1 points above the state) and 7th-grade math at 59.0% (18.7 points above).
Two trends are worth watching. Rank has slipped from 14th to 29th to 54th over three years, and all three subjects declined year over year, with the three-subject average falling from 52.3% to 47.2% (a drop of 5.1 points) — steeper than the state's 0.65-point decline. The school also now trails its own district's all-grades averages (math 63.4%, reading 59.0%, science 32.3%) while still beating the state. 5th-grade reading, at 53.2% against a 54.5% state rate, is the only below-state result in the file. Science is the thinnest margin over the state (2.2 points), and 7th-grade reading dips to 48.7%. Even so, with 30.73% of students on free/reduced lunch, the school posts a three-subject average 7.5 points above the state.
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