Summary:
Warroad, Minnesota has two schools serving about 1,023 students in the Warroad Public School District: Warroad High School, which serves grades 6–12 with 548 students, and Warroad Elementary, which serves PK–5 with 475 students. The area lists one elementary, zero middle, and one high school, so grades 6–8 are housed inside the high school — meaning its "all grades" scores actually combine middle and high school results. The district overall ranks 208 of 458, at the 55th percentile with 3 stars.
The two schools look quite different. Warroad Elementary is the academic standout: all-grades math proficiency is 59.8%, which is 17.3 points above the district (42.5%) and 14.9 points above the state (44.9%), with particularly strong 3rd-grade math (69.4%) and 4th-grade math (65.6%). Its all-grades reading (50.5%) is also above both district and state. Warroad High School trails both: all-grades math is 30.4% versus the state's 44.9%, and reading is 40.8% versus 48.6%. Its results vary sharply by grade — 6th-grade reading (68.9%) and math (45.5%) beat the state, while 7th-, 8th-, 10th-, and 11th-grade results run well below it. The high school sits at the 39th percentile with 2 stars, down from the 74th percentile and 4 stars two years earlier; the elementary is at the 64th percentile with 3 stars.
The most serious warning sign is at the high school: a 13.8% dropout rate versus 4.2% statewide — more than three times the state rate — alongside an 80.0% graduation rate versus 84.9% statewide. Warroad Elementary's reading fell 11 points year over year (from 61.5% to 50.5%) but remains above state, while its science (26.7%) is close to state (25.5%). Science is not the main difference between the schools; math and reading are.
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