Summary:
Zip code 55614 covers Silver Bay, Minnesota, and contains 2 schools — one elementary and one high school — both part of the Lake Superior Public School District and located at the same address on Banks Blvd. William Kelley Elementary serves grades PK–5 with 143 students, while Wm. M. Kelley Secondary serves grades 6–12 with 179 students, for a combined enrollment of 322.
The two schools are heading in opposite directions. William Kelley Elementary jumped from 20th percentile and 1 star in 2024–2025 to 65th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026, and its all-grade scores now beat both the district and the state in math (59.1), reading (53.1), and science (27.3). Wm. M. Kelley Secondary has stayed in the bottom third of ranked high schools, at 32nd percentile and 2 stars, with all-grade scores below district and state in every subject — math at 25.5, reading at 31.9, and science at 15.1. Its dropout rate of 7.6% is well above the district's 2.8% and the state's 4.2%, while its graduation rate of 84.6% is close to the state's 84.9%, though below the district's 88.4%.
Notably, the elementary school posts these results even with a higher poverty indicator — 41.96% free or reduced lunch versus 26.26% at the secondary school — and a more favorable student–teacher ratio of 12.6 compared with 14.7. Math shows the widest gap between the schools, 33.6 percentage points. Grade-level results reveal pockets of strength and weakness: 3rd grade math at 81% and 4th grade math at 69.6% at the elementary, but 5th grade math at 27.3%, below the state's 41.9%; at the secondary level, 7th grade reading at 45% and 11th grade math at 28% are bright spots, but most other grades trail the state.
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