Herbster is a small community in the Town of Clover, Bayfield County on Lake Superior. The Herbster State Graded School was constructed in 1924. Before then students had attended school in a two-room school building and a room at the town hall. In that year the State Commission of Public Lands loaned the district 20,000 dollars from the State Trust Fund in order to construct a new building. The new building was planned to accommodate 50 students and to allow the school to offer high school instruction, a rarity for a rural school at the time. However, after the school's opening, the district did not always support a high school program because of limited finances and enrollment numbers, and in those years it was necessary for high school students to be bused to nearby Cornucopia. The Herbster School was in existence through the 1957-1958 school year.
