Summary:
Hermantown Community Schools is a Minnesota district that includes a single middle school, Hermantown Middle, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 677 students at 4335 Hawk Circle Drive in Hermantown, just outside Duluth.
Hermantown Middle is a high performer relative to the state and has been climbing steadily. In 2025–2026 it ranked 40th of 546 Minnesota middle schools, placing in the 93rd percentile with 5 stars, up from 65th of 545 (88th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 and 52nd of 519 (90th percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–2025 — roughly the top 7% of ranked middle schools. That outpaces its own district, Hermantown Community Schools, which ranked 51st of 458 (89th percentile, 4 stars). Reading is the standout subject: 64.4% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, 15.8 points above the state and 4.1 points above the district's all-grade figure, with every reported grade level ahead of the state by roughly 9.9 to 17.6 points and eighth grade leading at 67.6%.
Math stayed above the state at 55.4% (10.5 points ahead), and every grade level beat the state by at least 10.7 points, but the all-grade figure slipped 5.42 points from 60.82% the year before while the district and state were nearly flat — the main area to watch. Science improved from 26.43% to 29.2% while the district fell 4.34 points, and eighth-grade science was a clear strength at 31.9% versus the state's 16.7%. Context metrics show a free/reduced lunch rate of 14.77% and a student-teacher ratio of 16.3.
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