Summary:
The Yellow Medicine East area has exactly one high school: Yellow Medicine East Secondary in Granite Falls, Minnesota, a combined campus serving grades 6 through 12 with 321 students. Because it is the only high school in the district, there is no local peer school to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state. About 38.01% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch, and the student-teacher ratio of 12.3 works out to roughly 26 teachers.
Graduation outcomes are the strongest part of the picture. In 2024–2025, 86.2% of students graduated, above Minnesota's 84.9%, and the dropout rate was 3.9%, below the state's 4.2%. Reading is the clearest academic bright spot: overall Reading proficiency is 45.7%, only 2.9 points behind the state, and it rose from 40.79% the prior year — the largest year-over-year gain of any subject. Two grade levels actually beat the state: 7th grade Reading at 50% versus 43.5%, and 10th grade Reading at 44.8% versus 42.5%.
Math and Science are where the school trails most. Math proficiency is 20.4% versus 44.9% statewide, and every tested grade is below the state, with the widest gap in 8th grade Math at 16.7% versus 42.3%. Science is 15.5% versus 25.5% statewide, and 8th grade Science is 9.5% versus 16.7%. In state rankings, the school sits 287th of 473 — the 39th percentile with 2 stars — an improvement from 335th of 450 and the 26th percentile with 1 star the year before. Overall, families will find a school making real progress, with strong graduation and reading results alongside clear work to do in Math and Science.
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