Wm. M. Kelley Secondary School

Silver Bay, MN 55614

Schools

About Wm. M. Kelley Secondary School

Wm. M. Kelley Secondary School is the Silver Bay secondary school in Lake Superior School District (ISD 381), covering grades 6 through 12 with roughly 179 students (NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-2025, accessed 2026-08-13). That is one of the smallest public secondary schools in Minnesota: about 25 students per grade level across seven grades.

ISD 381 enrolls 1,286 students in total across four schools, running one elementary and one 6-12 secondary school in each of its two towns. Two Harbors has Minnehaha Elementary and Two Harbors Secondary; Silver Bay has William Kelley Elementary and this school.

For buyers looking anywhere between Two Harbors and Silver Bay, the practical question is which end of the district an address falls into, because the two ends are about thirty minutes apart on MN 61 and the schools are genuinely different in scale. A cohort this small means every student is known and every student who wants to play a sport will play it; it also means a limited course catalog and few specialized programs. Confirm the assignment for 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.