Summary:
This area is served by a single high school — Spectrum High School — a grades 9–12 campus with 502 students in Elk River, Minnesota, that also operates as its own district, Spectrum High School. Because there is only one school here, there are no local schools to compare it against; the most useful benchmark is how it stacks up against Minnesota averages statewide.
The strongest parts of this school's profile are its outcomes. Its graduation rate is 95.5% in 2024–25, compared with 84.9% for Minnesota — a 10.6 percentage-point advantage — and its dropout rate is 1.1% versus the state's 4.2%. Academic performance is strongest in science and reading. In 2025–26, reading proficiency was 55.5% against a state rate of 48.6%, and science was 39.6% against a state all-grade rate of 25.5% and an End-of-Course rate of 35.0%. Math is the weaker spot: all-grade math was 37.5% in 2025–26, below the state's 44.9%, although 11th-grade math (37.5%) was 2.2 points above the state's 11th-grade rate (35.3%).
The trend line is worth watching. All three subjects declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26 — math by 14.84 points, reading by 10.87 points, and science by 8.33 points — while state averages stayed nearly flat. The school's ranking also slipped, from 19th of 480 in 2023–24 to 95th of 473 in 2025–26, still within the top 20% of Minnesota high schools with 4 stars. The district ranks 59th of 458, at the 87th percentile with 4 stars. With roughly 500 students, single-year swings can reflect small cohort sizes, and district-level figures sometimes diverge from school-level reporting, so those comparisons deserve caution.
Thank you for your feedback!