Yellow Medicine East Secondary

Yellow Medicine East Secondary operates as a medium-sized 9-12 campus in GRANITE FALLS, Minnesota, one of the schools within YELLOW MEDICINE EAST. Current enrollment sits at 321 students spanning grades 6 through 12.

Within YELLOW MEDICINE EAST, which oversees 2 schools and 605 students, Yellow Medicine East Secondary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Yellow Medicine East Secondary records that White students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 9% Native American, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Yellow Medicine East Secondary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 16.3:1, putting Yellow Medicine East Secondary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Yellow Medicine East Secondary is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.6%; Yellow Medicine East Secondary posts 30.3%, -14.4 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Yellow Medicine County put median household income runs about $74,000, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Yellow Medicine County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,274 students), Yellow Medicine East Secondary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is BERT RANEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Yellow Medicine East Secondary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.8%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Yellow Medicine East Secondary has ticked up 49%, going from 216 students in 2018 to 321 in 2025.

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