Hermantown Senior High

Set in HERMANTOWN, Minnesota, Hermantown Senior High is a high-enrollment high school, one of the schools within Hermantown Community Schools. It enrolls 655 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Hermantown Senior High sits 77% larger than that benchmark.

Hermantown Community Schools comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,118 students; Hermantown Senior High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Hermantown Senior High logs that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 4% multiracial. Compared to St. Louis County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Hermantown Senior High records 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Hermantown Senior High higher than the state norm the norm. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against St. Louis County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hermantown Senior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.2%; this one delivers 47.5%.

In the broader community, census data for St. Louis County shows median household income runs about $70,069, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Hermantown Senior High is one of 100 public schools in St. Louis County (combined enrollment of about 23,921 students).

Nearest neighbor: Hermantown Middle, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Hermantown Senior High. On composite proficiency, Hermantown Senior High comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.9%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 662 students in 2018 compared to 655 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Hermantown Senior High typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.