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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