Cloquet Middle School

About Cloquet Middle School

Cloquet Middle School serves grades 5 through 8 with roughly 752 students (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-13), a wider grade span than most middle schools in this guide.

At this size the school can carry more elective and specialized programming than the small districts in the corridor, which is the central argument for Cloquet over Esko or Carlton for families who want breadth.

Cloquet Public Schools enrolls roughly 2,529 students across four main buildings plus early childhood and alternative programs (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025). The grade structure is unusual for this region: elementary runs only through grade 4, and the middle school covers a wide five-through-eight span, so students change buildings at the end of fourth grade. Families arriving from a district with a different configuration should plan for that earlier transition. The district also works in long-standing partnership with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, whose reservation borders the city, including Ojibwe language and culture programming. This guide builds its own transparent school ratings from Minnesota Department of Education report card data rather than republishing licensed third-party scores.

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Where these facts come from

• NCES Common Core of Data, school list for Cloquet Public Schools (270942000381) accessed 2026-08-13

Last reviewed 2026-08-13 by Guide editorial.