Mahtomedi Middle

Mahtomedi Middle is a grades 6–8 school serving 761 students in Mahtomedi, Minnesota, a suburban community in the Mahtomedi Public School District, which ranks 12th of 458 districts in the state.

The school is ranked 17th of 546 Minnesota middle schools in 2025–2026 (97th percentile, 5 stars), and its record is not a one-year fluke: it has never fallen below the 95th percentile since 2015–2016, and reached as high as 5th of 523 in 2016–2017. It leads every nearby middle school in all three tested subjects — math 64.3%, reading 67.3%, and science 33.9%, compared with state figures of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. The closest local comparison is Central Middle, ranked 42nd of 546, which comes nearest in reading (64.6%) but trails by more in math and science. Gentry Academy Middle is the nearest math comparison at 53.3%, still 11 points behind. Mariner Middle School, North Metro Flex Middle School, Level Up Academy Middle School, and Bellaire Education Center all score well below Mahtomedi. Standouts include 6th-grade reading at 75.3% and 8th-grade science at 33.9%, roughly double the state's 16.7%. The school also ranks among the state's most effective for students from low-income families (95th percentile) and for special education students (88th percentile).

Science is the main internal watch point. At 33.9% it sits far below the school's math and reading results and has swung widely across recent years, though it still beats the state and every nearby school with reported scores. Context matters: 15.11% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and the student/teacher ratio is 17.9 — favorable, but not enough on its own to explain these outcomes, since Gentry has a lower poverty rate yet weaker reading and science results. Note that Level Up Academy Virtual Middle has suppressed test scores, so its performance is simply unknown, and Bellaire, an alternative setting with very small enrollment, is not directly comparable.