Hermantown Community Schools

Hermantown Community Schools is a four-school district in Minnesota serving roughly 2,075 students across grades K–12: one elementary school, one middle school, and two high schools, including a very small alternative program. It ranks 51st of 458 Minnesota districts — the 89th percentile — with 4 stars, and its students generally score above state averages in every reported subject.

Hermantown Elementary (K–4, 731 students) and Hermantown Middle (5–8, 677 students) are the district's academic anchors. Elementary ranks 89th of 869 schools (90th percentile, 4 stars) and posts the district's highest math proficiency at 77.4%, against 59.8% for the district and 44.9% for the state, with both math and reading improving markedly over the prior year. Middle is the highest-ranked school at 40th of 546 (93rd percentile, 5 stars), with reading at 64.4% and standout 8th-grade results — 67.6% in reading versus the state's 50% and 31.9% in science versus the state's 16.7%. Its math, 55.4%, beats the state but trails the district.

Hermantown Senior High has excellent completion outcomes — a 96.8% graduation rate and 1.2% dropout rate, both far better than the state's 84.9% and 4.2% — but lower current test proficiency: 39.8% in math and 36.6% in reading, below both district and state, with its rank percentile sliding from 94th in 2023–24 to 53rd in 2025–26. Hermantown Alternative Learning Prg enrolls only 12 students, and the state suppressed its reading and science scores, so no academic conclusion can be drawn. It has the district's highest free/reduced-lunch rate at 25% and its lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.7.