Best Public Schools in Zip Code 55811

ZIP code 55811, spanning northern Duluth and the neighboring city of Hermantown in St. Louis County, Minnesota, contains 12 schools serving roughly 4,059 students in prekindergarten through 12th grade across four districts: Hermantown Community Schools, Duluth Public School District, Duluth Public Schools Academy (North Star), and a single Pike Lake school from Proctor Public School District.

The area's strongest results cluster in Hermantown. Hermantown Middle is the standout — 5 stars, 93rd percentile, with reading at 64.4%, nearly 16 points above the state. Hermantown Elementary made the biggest jump in the file, with math at 77.4%, the best in the ZIP and 32.5 points above the state. Pike Lake Elementary remains strong at the 81st percentile, though its math fell 13.5 points from a prior peak. Lowell Elementary Spanish Immersion leads in science at 55.6%, and Piedmont Elementary beats state averages in all three subjects despite the ZIP's highest poverty rate among comprehensive schools.

Two schools lag. North Star Academy, the largest non-Hermantown school at 572 students, holds 1 star and the 29th percentile, with a sharp drop after 4th grade. Hermantown Senior High tells opposite stories: a 96.8% graduation rate but math and reading below state and well below its own district. The smallest programs — Special Education N.P., The Bridge, Arrowhead Academy, and Hermantown Alternative Learning Prg — are tiny, and much of their data is suppressed for privacy, so blanks there mean unreported, not failing.