Carlton Independent School District 93, also known as Carlton School District or Carlton Public Schools, is a school district headquartered in
Carlton, Minnesota
Carlton is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 948 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Carlton County. The town sits on the northwestern edge of Jay Cooke State Park.
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. It operates two schools: South Terrace Elementary School (PK-5) and
Carlton High School
Carlton High School is a public high school located in Carlton, Minnesota, United States.
The school operates under the Carlton Public School District, housing grades 6 through 12. It serves a population of approximately 350 students. The school ...
(6-12).
Entirely in
Carlton County, it serves most of Carlton, much of
Big Lake, and a small section of
Cloquet.
History
The District #15 district was created on a date prior to February 2, 1913, and merged with
Wrenshall at around this time period. Circa 1951 it became District #2 as it merged with the
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district. It received its current formal name circa 1957.
In 2019 the Carlton district and the
Wrenshall School District
Wrenshall School District, ISD #100 is a school district headquartered in Wrenshall, Minnesota. It is entirely in Carlton County. It is divided into elementary and secondary divisions.
History
In 2019 the Wrenshall district and the Carlton Scho ...
were in talks on the possibility of consolidating. By September 2020 a study was released stating that if Carlton and Wrenshall consolidated, the taxpayer in the former Carlton zone would pay two and one half times the rate that a Wrenshall zone taxpayer would. Some legislation that would have facilitated the merger was, in 2020, not passed by the
Minnesota Legislature
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. Additionally the compositions of the school boards changed.
The two school boards chose not to hold further discussions on consolidation after February 2021. That month Carlton began discussing with
Cloquet Public Schools
Cloquet Public Schools (ISD94) is a school district headquartered in Cloquet, Minnesota.
Ken Scarbrough served as superintendent until his retirement. Michael Cary became the superintendent in 2018. In 2020 the school district renewed his contract ...
the possibility of an agreement to send high school students to Cloquet. The Carlton district was also working on its own referendum for new facilities.
On June 21, 2021, the Carlton School Board stated that it no longer wished to consolidate with Wrenshall and that it was considering using the South Terrace campus as a single K-12 site and/or consolidating with the Cloquet or
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school districts. Carlton, in July 2021, was still negotiating with Cloquet.
Student body
it had about 500 students, with about 33% being eligible for free or reduced price lunches and 16% of students having Native American ancestry.
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Athletics
The Carlton and Wrensall school districts have a shared athletics team. By August 2021 the fact that Carlton was now in negotiations with Cloquet over a tuition agreement could impact the Carlton-Wrensall team.[ ]
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External links
Carlton School District
School districts in Minnesota
Education in Carlton County, Minnesota