Five New Courses Approved for St. Cloud Middle Schoolers ST. CLOUD -- Students in grades six through eight in St. Cloud will be taking some new required classes next school year. At Wednesday night's meeting, the St. Cloud school board approved five new courses to be offered to middle schoolers at North Junior High, South Junior High, and Kennedy Community School. The new offerings are partially prompted by changes to the Minnesota Department of Education’s fine arts standards for the 2021-2022 school year. Students must be offered courses in at least three of the five following areas: visual arts, media arts, theatre, dance, and music, and they must also take two of them each year. In response, the district is adding Media Arts 6,7, and 8.