Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6

Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 is one of the tiny middle-grades schools in ELK RIVER, Minnesota, overseen by SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL, with 147 students on its rolls from grade 6. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 sits 70% smaller than that benchmark.

SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 940 students. Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 shows that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest is composed of 5% Hispanic, 3% Black, 3% multiracial. Compared to Sherburne County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 15% of students at Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sherburne County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.0%; this one delivers 60.3%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sherburne County) shows that median household earnings sit near $105,466, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Middle School - Grade 6 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area. Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6 operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 25%: 118 students in 2018 compared to 147 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 5% to 1% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.