Summary:
Sherburn, Minnesota is home to three schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — and all three belong to the Martin County West School District, which ranks 211 of 458 Minnesota districts (54th percentile, 3 stars). Together they enroll 424 students: Martin County West Senior High (187 students, grades 9–12), Sherburn Elementary (136 students, PK–2), and Martin County West Junior High (101 students, grades 7–8). No school in this list serves grades 3–6, so those grades are presumably served elsewhere in the district.
Ranked against each other, the junior high currently has the strongest standing: 217 of 546, 60th percentile, 3 stars, above the district. Its 8th-grade math result of 56% is well above the state's 42.3%, though 7th-grade reading (32.7%) and science (14%) are weak spots. The high school tells a mixed story — a 96.5% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate far better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2%, but math proficiency of just 15.2% against the state's 44.9%. Reading (47.6%) is near the state average and science (31%) is above it. The elementary has the smallest classes (student-teacher ratio 9.9) and the highest free/reduced lunch rate (36.76%), but no current test-score data in this set; its only ranking is from 2012–2013 and should not be read as current.
Both the high school and junior high improved in reading and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — the high school gained 19.69 points in reading and 21.91 in science — while math slipped slightly at both. Because these schools enroll only 101 to 187 students, year-to-year swings in percentages can be driven by small cohorts, so families should weigh results across multiple years rather than a single number.
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