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Cambridge Intermediate School
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cambridge Intermediate School
Set in CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota, Cambridge Intermediate School is a heavily attended K-5 school, part of Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist. It educates 536 students across grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 56% above typical.
Cambridge Intermediate School is one of 18 schools operated by Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist, a district that caters to 5,007 students overall.
On demographics, Cambridge Intermediate School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). The remainder breaks down as 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% Black. By comparison, Isanti County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Cambridge Intermediate School logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
After controlling for student poverty, Cambridge Intermediate School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.7%, the actual is 49.4%, a residual of +3.7 points.
In the broader community, census data for Isanti County shows median household earnings sit near $87,440, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Cambridge Intermediate School is one of 24 public schools in Isanti County (combined enrollment of about 6,086 students).
Cambridge Early Childhood SpecialEd is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Cambridge Intermediate School's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 605 (now 536). White enrollment moved from 88% to 82% across the same window.
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