Summary
Grygla Secondary is a very small rural public school in Grygla, Minnesota, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling just 67 students in the Grygla Public School District. The nearest school in the data, Goodridge Secondary, sits about 14 miles away, serves the same grades, and enrolls 114 students.
The school's clearest strength is completion. Grygla reported a 100% graduation rate and a 0% dropout rate in 2024–25, compared with 92.3% and 7.6% at Goodridge Secondary and 84.9% and 4.2% statewide. Grygla also has a lower student-teacher ratio — 8.5 students per teacher versus 11.4 at Goodridge — even though it serves a higher share of students from lower-income families, with 46.27% qualifying for free/reduced lunch compared with 31.58% at Goodridge. At the same time, Grygla's overall state rank remains near the bottom: its 2025–26 school rank is 342nd of 473 schools, in the 28th percentile with 1 star, while the Grygla Public School District ranks 382nd of 458 districts, in the 17th percentile with 1 star.
Academically, results are mixed. Grygla's all-grade math proficiency was 30.6% in 2025–26 and 34.62% in 2024–25, above Goodridge's 14.5% and 25% but below the state's 44.9% and 45.21%. Reading has been a consistent challenge, remaining below the state in every year provided, and science scores have swung widely from year to year. The state suppressed Grygla's 8th-grade math, reading, and science results, so those are unknown and should not be read as zeros. With only 67 students, a few students moving in or out can shift percentages dramatically, so year-to-year changes should be interpreted cautiously. One additional concern is the school's effectiveness rank for its White student subgroup, which slipped to the 11th percentile in 2025–26 from the 27th and 35th percentiles in earlier years; that figure measures how well the school serves the group, not the students themselves.
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