By Chris Steller, Southeast Angle, July 14, 2004

No one made fun of the new kid at Tuttle-Pratt Middle School this fall. That’s because the school itself is new. So, technically at least, is each of its 50-or-so sixth- and seventh-grade students. Most have progressed through elementary grades at Tuttle Community School, and they still walk through the main door at 1042 18th Ave. SE to go to class.

But Tuttle-Pratt Middle School is, technically at least, a new school, offering grades 7 and (next year) 8 for the first time in the building’s 92-year history.
For most of those years, Tuttle was a traditional kindergarten-sixth grade elementary school. Then in 1998, the Minneapolis Public Schools reduced Tuttle to a K-5 program, sending its sixth graders off to Northeast Middle School.

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