Martin County West Junior High

Martin County West Junior High is one of the very small junior highs in SHERBURN, Minnesota, one of the schools within Martin County West School District, with 101 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 495 students each, so Martin County West Junior High sits 80% leaner than that benchmark.

Martin County West School District comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 624 students; Martin County West Junior High is among them.

Looking at the student body, Martin County West Junior High lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 17.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 34% of students at Martin County West Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Martin County (around 51%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Martin County West Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.0%, the actual is 36.2%, a residual of -10.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Martin County put the typical household earns roughly $59,507 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Martin County West Junior High is one of 15 public schools in Martin County (combined enrollment of about 3,110 students).

Martin County West Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Martin County West Junior High at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 112 students in 2018 compared to 101 in 2025.

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