Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8

Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 operates as an intimate junior high in ELK RIVER, Minnesota, one of the schools within SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 291 students spanning grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 495.

SPECTRUM HIGH SCHOOL comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 940 students; Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 is among them.

On the student-mix side, Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 reports that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 15% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sherburne County runs at roughly 29%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 57.0%; actual is 39.6%, a gap of -17.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sherburne County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $105,466 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Sherburne County's 45 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,306 students), Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Spectrum Middle School - Grade 6, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, Spectrum Middle School - Grades 7-8 runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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