Enrollment
143
Elementary
DISTRICT 255 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LAKE SUPERIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.·NCES 274074001698
WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY
137 BANKS BLVD, SILVER BAY, MN 55614 · (218) 226-4437 · Lake County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL143 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.2:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
42%
60 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 48%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
28.6%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
32.3%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MN schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.5%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
143
-67 (-32%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 11.0:1
% White
89%
was 93%
% Hispanic
4%
was 1%
% Black
1%
was 2%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY
WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY operates as a small K-5 school in SILVER BAY, Minnesota, one of the schools within LAKE SUPERIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.. Current enrollment sits at 143 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY sits 58% leaner than that benchmark.
LAKE SUPERIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,286 students. WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Lake County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.5%; this one comes in at 27.7%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Lake County) shows that median household earnings sit near $75,541, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY is one of 4 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 1,286 students).
Nearest neighbor: Wm. M. Kelley Secondary, around 0.1 miles off. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 38.0%.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Over the past 7-year window. WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 210 (now 143). White enrollment moved from 93% to 89% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.
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Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
10,879
Census ACS
Median income
$75,541
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
4
1,286 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in LAKE SUPERIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST.
- TWO HARBORS SECONDARYHigh · 597 students
- MINNEHAHA ELEMENTARYElementary · 367 students
- Wm. M. Kelley SecondaryHigh · 179 students
Nearby schools
- Wm. M. Kelley Secondary0.1 mi · 179
- TWO HARBORS SECONDARY24.8 mi · 597
- MINNEHAHA ELEMENTARY26.3 mi · 367
- BIRCH GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOL27.4 mi · 45
- NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY SCHOOL38.0 mi · 355
- Bayfield High39.3 mi · 119
Frequently asked questions
About WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARYWhat is the total enrollment at WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY?
WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 143 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY serve?
WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY is approximately 12.6:1 (11 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY?
At WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY, the student body is approximately 89% White, 4% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY?
WILLIAM KELLEY ELEMENTARY is overseen by LAKE SUPERIOR PUBLIC SCHOOL DIST. in Lake County.
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