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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Discovery Middle School, Alexandria, MN

Discovery Middle School is a public middle school in Alexandria, part of Alexandria Public School District. It enrolled 898 students in 2024-25, with 16.0 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
898
Teachers (FTE)
56.0
Students per teacher
16.0
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.5 higher than the district figure of 14.5. The Minnesota average across schools is 15.2. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.0
District14.5
Minnesota15.2
United States15.3

School details

Address
510 N McKay Ave, Alexandria, MN 56308
Phone
(320)762-7900
District
Alexandria Public School District
County
Douglas County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Remote
NCES school ID
270306000083
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
190
Reduced-price lunch
62
Free or reduced-price lunch
25228.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification
181Students 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

Middle schools elsewhere in Alexandria

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.