Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School

As an intimate primary school in ISANTI, Minnesota, Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School works with 139 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist. That puts it 60% below the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 344 students.

Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 5,007 students; Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School is among them.

On demographics, Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School records that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.8:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Isanti County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 52.3%; Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School posts 32.6%, -19.7 points below that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Isanti County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,440 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Isanti County's 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,086 students), Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School is one campus in the mix.

Isanti Intermediate School 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. On composite proficiency, Cambridge-Isanti STEAM School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 31%: 202 students in 2018 compared to 139 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 1% to 6%.

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