Summary:
Murdock, Minnesota is home to just one public school — Murdock Elementary — an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 395 students, and it belongs to the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg district. Because it is the only school in the city, parents have no other local public option to compare it with, so the fairest benchmarks are the district and the state.
The school's clearest strength is reading and math at the all-grade level. In 2025–2026, reading proficiency was 51.1%, above the district's 44.5% and the state's 48.6%, while math was 47.7%, also above the district (41.9%) and state (44.9%). Fourth grade stands out in both: 57.8% in reading, roughly 9 points above the state, and 60.9% in math. Sixth-grade math is strong too at 50%, well above the state's 39.5%. The weak spots are fifth-grade math, at 32.1% versus the state's 41.9%, and science, where the school's 12.8% trails both the district's 15.3% and the state's 25.5% by a wide margin.
Year-over-year, results are mixed. Math slipped from 54.24% to 47.7% and science from 16.36% to 12.8%, while reading held steady at about 51%. The school's state rank moved from 356th of 872 (59th percentile) in 2024–2025 to 431st of 869 (50th percentile) in 2025–2026, still earning 3 stars in each of the last three years. Its district is rated 2 stars and ranks 259th of 458, at the 43rd percentile, so the school outperforms its district overall. About 40.51% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 11.4. Note that district grade-level figures mirror the school's, and the reading exam label changed between years, so year-over-year reading comparisons should be read with care.
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