Summary:
The Osseo Public School District area in Minnesota is served by five middle schools, all teaching grades 6–8, with a combined enrollment of 4,244 students. The district's middle school profile ranks 285 of 458 statewide — the 38th percentile, rated 2 stars. Enrollment is concentrated: Maple Grove Middle School (1,598 students, 37.7% of the group) and Osseo Middle School (1,128, 26.6%) together enroll 64.2% of these students, while Brooklyn Middle STEAM School (931), North View Middle School (509), and 279Online Learning Program 6-8 (78) make up the rest.
The district's middle schools split into two clear groups with nothing in between. Maple Grove (79th percentile, 4 stars) and Osseo (71st percentile, 4 stars) are the standouts. Maple Grove leads on Reading (55.3%) and Science (15.8%), has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate at 28.29%, and outperforms district and state in Math and Reading. Osseo has the highest Math score overall (45.7%) and the strongest 8th grade results, with 8th-grade Math at 48.8% and 8th-grade Reading at 54.5%. Both have held 4 stars over the past two reported years.
The other three schools rank 15th to 32nd percentile with 1–2 stars, but all are improving. Brooklyn Middle raised Math, Reading, and Science (Math now 23.4%, Reading 38.0%) and climbed from 1 star to 2. North View, which has the highest free/reduced lunch rate at 79.17%, improved in all three subjects and now sits at 15th percentile. 279Online has the lowest Math (11.6%) but a surprisingly solid Science result (13.3%), and its small size makes year-to-year numbers volatile. Notably, Science is a weakness everywhere — no school reaches the state average of 25.5% — and student–teacher ratio does not track achievement, since Maple Grove has the highest ratio (22.0) yet the best results.
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