MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL

Set in ELY, Minnesota, MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is a tight-knit 9-12 campus, part of ELY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 181 students across grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 371 students per school, that is 51% smaller than typical.

MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one of 3 schools operated by ELY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that hosts 528 students overall.

Demographically, MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). The remainder breaks down as 6% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with St. Louis County as a whole.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below St. Louis County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for St. Louis County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,069 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across St. Louis County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Ely ISD 696 Credit Recovery is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL has increased 9%, going from 166 students in 2018 to 181 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 87% to 91% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.