Isanti Middle School

Isanti Middle School is one of the average-sized intermediate schools in ISANTI, Minnesota, overseen by Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist, with 449 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 5,007 students. Isanti Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Isanti Middle School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Isanti County as a whole is about 92% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Isanti Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Isanti Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 36.4%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Isanti County shows median household earnings sit near $87,440, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Isanti County runs 24 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,086 students), of which Isanti Middle School is one.

The closest other public school is Isanti Early Childhood Special Ed, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Isanti Middle School at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 33.7%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 16%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 449 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 87% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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