Summary
Richfield Middle is a public school serving grades 6–8 with 808 students in Richfield, Minnesota, a first-ring suburb of Minneapolis, and it is part of the Richfield Public School District. The district ranks 333 of 458 districts statewide (27th percentile, 1 star), while the school ranked 318 of 546 schools in 2025–2026 (42nd percentile, 2 stars), placing it above its own district's percentile but still below the state median.
The school is moving in the right direction. Its rank percentile rose from 24 in 2021–2022 to 27, 29, 30, and then 42 in 2025–2026, and its star rating went from 1 star in most prior years to 2 stars. In 2025–2026, proficiency rates were 30.3% in Math, 41.7% in Reading, and 11.7% in Science, compared with district rates of 32.4%, 39.2%, and 15.1% and state rates of 44.9%, 48.6%, and 25.5%. Reading is a relative bright spot — above the district average and within four points of the state in 8th grade (46.2% versus 50%) — while science is the clearest weakness, far below both district and state and among the lowest in the nearby group. Math falls below the state at every grade level.
Compared with nearby schools, Richfield lands in the lower-middle. Edina's Valley View Middle and South View Middle rank at the 99th and 98th percentiles, Minneapolis's Anthony Middle and Justice Page Middle at 95 and 91, Seven Hills - Richfield Middle at 90, and Bloomington's Olson Middle at 87 and Oak Grove Middle at 59 — all above Richfield's 42. Richfield does outpace Success Academy Bloomington Middle (25th percentile) and Bloomington's Valley View Middle (14th). About 57.67% of students received free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, down from 67.66% in 2022–2023, and the student-teacher ratio improved to 11.7, better than most nearby schools. Subgroup results show that progress isn't evenly spread: students from low-income backgrounds ranked in the 25th percentile (1 star), well below the school's overall standing.
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