Summary:
The Granada Huntley East Chain district in Minnesota contains just three public schools — Granada Huntley East Chain Elementary School (PK–5), Granada Huntley East Chain Middle S (6–8), and Granada Huntley East Chain High School (9–12) — serving 317 students in a small rural community with no alternative school listed. The district is rated 371st of 458 in Minnesota, the 19th percentile with 1 star, and that district-level rating appears on all three school records rather than being school-specific.
The middle school is the clearest standout for improvement. It rose from the 18th to the 37th percentile and from 1 star to 2 stars, and it posted the district's highest proficiency in Math (28.1%) and Reading (41.3%), including 6th grade Reading at 55.6% — above the state's 53.4%. The high school shows a striking contrast: a 100.0% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate versus the state's 84.9% and 4.2%, yet the lowest Math (10.5%) and Reading (24%) proficiency in the district and a rank percentile that fell from 42 to 30 to 16 over three years. The elementary school is the largest (138 students) with the highest free/reduced lunch rate (57.25%), and its percentile drifted from 24 to 17.
Science is the district-wide weak spot: elementary 7.7%, middle 8%, and high school 16.3% against the state's 25.5%. At the elementary school, proficiency drops sharply by grade — Math falls from 43.5% in 3rd grade to 11.1% in 5th. As reported, the middle school's student:teacher ratio of 48.5 is a striking outlier compared with 13.5 and 11.2 elsewhere and may reflect a reporting issue. Free/reduced lunch sits near half the student body in every school, and with only 81 and 98 students in the middle and high schools, small enrollment makes year-to-year percentages volatile.
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