William Kelley Elementary

137 Banks Boulevard, Silver Bay, MN 55614

Schools

About William Kelley Elementary

William Kelley Elementary is the Silver Bay elementary school in Lake Superior School District (ISD 381), at 137 Banks Boulevard, serving roughly 143 students from prekindergarten through grade 5 (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-13).

Silver Bay is about 30 minutes northeast of Two Harbors up MN 61, a planned town built in the 1950s around taconite processing. At 143 students across six grade levels this is one of the smallest public elementaries in Minnesota.

Lake Superior School District enrolls 1,286 students across four schools and covers a large, sparsely populated county, running one elementary and one 6-12 secondary school in each of its two towns: Minnehaha Elementary and Two Harbors Secondary in Two Harbors, and William Kelley Elementary and Wm. M. Kelley Secondary in Silver Bay, about 30 minutes northeast (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025). A district this size cannot offer the course catalog or activity breadth of a large one; what it offers instead is very small class sizes and unusual access to outdoor and place-based programming. Attendance follows which end of the county you live in, so confirm a specific address with the district. This guide builds its own transparent school ratings from Minnesota Department of Education report card data rather than republishing licensed third-party scores.

Attendance boundaries and programs change. Confirm with the district before you rely on this.
Nearby

Neighborhoods it serves

Silver Bay
North Shore

A whole town built at once in 1954, with the best cliffs on the North Shore behind it.

 Two Harbors
North Shore

The North Shore's working town: ore docks, a lighthouse, and a real grocery store.
Sources

Where these facts come from

Last reviewed 2026-08-13 by Guide editorial.