Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary

As an average-sized four-year high school in LONG PRAIRIE, Minnesota, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary serves 466 students from grades 7 through 12, operated by Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School Dist. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 371 students each, so Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary sits 26% bigger than that benchmark.

Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary is one of 2 schools operated by Long Prairie-Grey Eagle School Dist, a district that educates 984 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary lists that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 44% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 66% of students at Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Todd County runs at roughly 56%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.6%; this one comes in at 16.8%, -12.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Todd County indicate median household earnings sit near $67,662, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary is one of 13 public schools in Todd County (combined enrollment of about 2,957 students).

Nearest neighbor: Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Long Prairie-Grey Eagle Secondary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 10%: 424 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 37% to 53%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.