Summary:
Granada, Minnesota has three public schools — Granada Huntley East Chain Elementary School (PK–5, 138 students), Granada Huntley East Chain Middle S (6–8, 81 students) and Granada Huntley East Chain High School (9–12, 98 students) — all part of the Granada Huntley East Chain district, with 317 students combined.
The district overall is rated 1 star, ranking 371st of 458 Minnesota districts (19th percentile), but the three schools perform quite differently. The middle school is the clear bright spot: it earned 2 stars in 2025–26 and sits at the 37th percentile (345th of 546 schools), up sharply from the 18th and 20th percentiles in the two prior years. It is the only school above the district in both math (28.1%) and reading (41.3%), and its 6th grade reading result of 55.6% is the only grade-level score in the entire dataset that beats the state (53.4%).
The high school tells a mixed story: graduation is 100% and dropout 0%, well ahead of the state's 84.9% and 4.2%, yet test scores are low and falling — math 10.5%, reading 24.0% — and its rank slid from the 42nd percentile to the 16th in two years. The elementary school has slipped from the 24th to the 17th percentile, with science dropping from 22.22% to 7.7%. Science is weak district-wide, every school trails the state in every all-grade subject in 2025–26, and the middle school's reported 48.5 student-teacher ratio looks like a reporting anomaly worth verifying.
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