Cambridge Middle School

Cambridge Middle School is an intermediate school of medium-sized scale in CAMBRIDGE, Minnesota, overseen by Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist, instructing 607 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 495 students per school, that is 23% bigger than typical.

Cambridge Middle School is one of 18 schools operated by Cambridge-Isanti Public School Dist, a district that teaches 5,007 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cambridge Middle School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Cambridge Middle School reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cambridge Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, Isanti County reports that the typical household earns roughly $87,440 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Cambridge Middle School is one of 24 public schools in Isanti County (combined enrollment of about 6,086 students).

Nearest neighbor: Moving Forward, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 6%: 645 students in 2018 compared to 607 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 84% across the same window.

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