Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Dakota Middle School, Rochester, MN
Dakota Middle School is a public middle school in Rochester, part of Rochester Public School District. It enrolled 921 students in 2024-25.
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 921
- Teachers (FTE)
- 0.0
- Grades
- 6 to 8
School details
- Address
- 5501 65th St NW, Rochester, MN 55901
- Phone
- (507)328-4530
- District
- Rochester Public School District
- County
- Olmsted County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 273180005406
School meals
Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
- Free lunch
- 307
- Reduced-price lunch
- 44
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 35138.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 291Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Rochester Public School District
- John Adams Middle School 867 students
- Willow Creek Middle School 864 students
- Kellogg Middle School 769 students
- Middle School ALC 31 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.