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Independent School District 2142

Public school district in Saint Louis County, Minnesota

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6017144 ↗
Source-derived summary

Independent School District 2142 (ISD 2142) is a school district consisting of five schools in Saint Louis County, Minnesota. It is geographically the largest school District in Minnesota at just over 4,000 square miles.

The school district is currently under the operation of Superintendent Dr. Reggie Engebritson, and seven board members, one or two each for certain districts.

Schools

Traveling north or south, there are no schools in the Eveleth/Virginia area. Three schools are north of Virginia, and the other two to the south. Virginia is also the site of the District Office. The District Office is also home to art displays annually, and is the base of operations for the school board.

School normally starts the day after Labor Day.

There have also been former schools such as Albrook, Cotton, Shaw, and Forbes.

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“Independent School District 2142” enters the record as public school district in Saint Louis County, Minnesota. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Independent, School and District can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 134-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Independent, School and District.
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This entry incorporates text from “Independent School District 2142” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.