Summary:
ZIP code 55751 has just one high school — Cherry Secondary in Iron, Minnesota — a combined grades 7–12 school of 273 students in the St. Louis County School District. Its standout strength is completion: the graduation rate is 93.7%, above the district's 93.2% and well above the state's 84.9%, and the dropout rate of 4.1% is essentially in line with the state's 4.2%.
Test results are more mixed, and grade level matters a lot here. In 2025–2026, 7th-grade reading is 52.4% proficient — nearly 16 points above the district and about 9 points above the state — and 8th-grade reading is 50%, matching the state. 7th- and 8th-grade math (36.6% and 34.8%) beat the district but trail the state. High school grades are weaker: 10th-grade reading is 22%, 11th-grade math is 10.3%, and all-grades math is 27.8%, up from 20.59% the prior year but still below the district and state. Science is the weakest area in 2025–2026 at 6.8%, well below both the district (17.1%) and state (25.5%) — although a year earlier science was 29.69%, above both. The End-of-Course science figure is suppressed by the state and should be treated as unknown rather than as a low result.
Parents should also note the school's rank percentile has slipped from 35 to 26 to 14 across three years, with stars falling from 2 to 1. With 273 students in grades 7–12, small cohorts can swing percentages sharply year to year, so single-year results deserve caution. Context: 32.6% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio is 15.2.
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