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About Grand Forks
City in North Dakota, United StatesGrand Forks is a city in and the county seat of Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 59,166 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 59,845 in 2024, making it the state's third-most populous city, after Fargo and Bismarck. Grand Forks, along with its twin city of East Grand Forks, Minnesota, forms the center of the Grand Forks metropolitan statistical area, which is often called Greater Grand Forks or the Grand Cities. Located on the western banks of the north-flowing Red River of the North, in a flat region known as the Red River Valley, the city is prone to flooding. The 1997 Red River flood devastated the city. Originally called Les Grandes Fourches by f…
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Safety in Grand Forks
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A grade needs all of the FBI's latest years (2023–2025). Grand Forks's police department reported only 2023 and 2024, so we don't grade it yet. The figures below are still real.
Schools in Grand Forks
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The public schools Grand Forks’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 63% of North Dakota’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within ND. Ratings are from neighbors.
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