Memorial Middle School

Memorial Middle School is an intermediate school of minimally staffed scale in ELY, Minnesota, operated by ELY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, instructing 146 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 71% below typical.

ELY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 528 students. Memorial Middle School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Memorial Middle School shows that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest reads as 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Memorial Middle School lists 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 29% of students at Memorial Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, St. Louis County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Memorial Middle School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 49.6%; actual is 35.0%, a gap of -14.7 points.

In the area at large, St. Louis County reports that median household earnings sit near $70,069, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across St. Louis County's 100 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students), Memorial Middle 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 Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.0%.

Memorial Middle School operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Memorial Middle School has grew 8%, going from 135 students in 2018 to 146 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Memorial Middle School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.