SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL

SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL is one of the mid-sized senior highs in ELK RIVER, Minnesota, run under SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL, with 502 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 35% bigger than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 940 students. SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Sherburne County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. The state averages about 16.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Sherburne County's rate of about 29%.

With demographic context factored in, SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.6%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sherburne County) logs that median household earnings sit near $105,466, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 3% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sherburne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,306 students), SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting. As a public charter, SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL has shrank 12%, going from 572 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 84% over that span.

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