Summary:
The city of Long Prairie, Minnesota, is home to a single high school, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary, which serves students in grades 7-12. The school faces significant challenges, with consistently low academic performance, a high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and lower-than-average graduation rates compared to the state.
Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary's performance on the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCA-III) in math, reading, and science is consistently below the state average across all grade levels. In the 2024-2025 school year, only 12.9% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in math, compared to the state average of 34.96%, and only 29.33% of 10th-grade students were proficient or better in reading, compared to the state average of 51.26%. The school's four-year graduation rate for the 2023-2024 school year was 84.2%, lower than the state average.
Despite these challenges, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.8, which is slightly lower than the state average. However, the school's ranking has fluctuated in recent years, ranging from 348 out of 480 schools in 2023-2024 to 373 out of 476 schools in 2022-2023, suggesting that its performance may be inconsistent or that the overall landscape of Minnesota high schools is changing. To address the unique challenges faced by the school's predominantly low-income student population, targeted interventions and support focused on improving instructional quality, providing additional academic and social-emotional support, and engaging the community could potentially help Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary improve its outcomes.
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