Best Public Schools in Redlake, MN

Redlake, Minnesota is served by six schools — three elementary, one middle and two high schools — with a combined enrollment of 1,474 students in grades PK through 12, most of them in the Red Lake Public School District. Enrollment is concentrated: Red Lake Elementary alone has 526 students, about 36% of the city total, while Red Lake Alternative Learning has just 53. Poverty is high across the board — every school has a free- or reduced-price lunch rate above 70%, with a weighted average of roughly 80.5%.

Among schools with test results, Red Lake Elementary is the relative standout. It has the highest 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency in both Math (7.5%) and Reading (15.5%), and it is the only school that improved in all three tested subjects. Red Lake Secondary holds the best rank percentile in the city (7th percentile) and the top Science result (5.2%), but posts a 23.6% graduation rate and a 39.4% dropout rate. Red Lake Middle School is the weakest tested school, with Math 1.3%, Reading 6.9%, Science 1.4% and 8th-grade Math at 0%, while Endazhi-Nitaawiging ranks last statewide (0 percentile).

Every ranked school sits in the bottom 7% of Minnesota or lower, and even the best local Math and Reading results trail state averages by more than 30 percentage points. Red Lake Alternative Learning has the most extreme staffing ratio at 53.0 students per teacher and the lowest graduation rate (6.9%), though its dropout rate (27.5%) is below Red Lake Secondary's. Some figures are suppressed by the state, including most of Red Lake Alternative Learning's test scores and Endazhi-Nitaawiging's Science result; those should be read as unknown, not as zeros. Red Lake Early Childhood Center, serving PK–K, has no test or rank data.