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Forest Lake is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States, located 27 miles northeast of Saint Paul. The population was 20,611 at the 2020 census . [ 5 ]
Forest Lake Township's first settlers arrived in the latter half of the 1850s, and the township was officially established in 1893. In the same year, part of the township incorporated as the village of Forest Lake. In 2001, Forest Lake (by this point, a city) annexed the entire township. [3]
Forest Lake is located in southwestern Lake County at (42.207824, -88.053475 It is bordered to the north, west, and south by Hawthorn Woods , and to the east and south by Kildeer . The village of Lake Zurich boundary comes within 0.1 miles (0.16 km) of the southwest corner of the CDP.
The 220-square-mile (570 km 2) district boundary includes all or part of several cities and townships - Columbus, East Bethel, Forest Lake, Ham Lake, Hugo, Lino Lakes, Marine, May, Scandia, Stacy, and Wyoming. The Forest Lake Area school system includes 8 elementary sites, 1 junior high site, and 1 high school site.
North Lakes Academy (NLA) is a charter school located in Forest Lake, Minnesota, United States. It serves students in grades K–12 from Forest Lake and surrounding areas. Established in 1999, NLA currently educates approximately 400 students with class sizes averaging 22 students.
Forest Lake High School was shown by the Minnesota Report Card to have proficiency in math at 60.3%, reading at 61.3% and science at 58.5%. The graduation rate is 84.8%. [2] Forest Lake High School was named one of the top 1,500 high schools in the country by Newsweek Magazine in 2013. [3]
Forest Lake Township was formed from parts of Bridgewater, Silver Lake, and Middletown Townships on May 4, 1836. [3] In the 1900s, there was an art camp for girls on the lake itself called Camp Sylvania.
Itasca State Park (/ aɪ ˈ t æ s k ə /) is a state park of Minnesota, United States, and contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River.The park spans 32,690 acres (132.3 km 2) of northern Minnesota, and is located about 21 miles (34 km) north of Park Rapids, Minnesota and 25 miles (40 km) from Bagley, Minnesota.