Editing Crookston, Minnesota (section)

==Education==
===K–12===
Crookston is in [[Crookston School District 593]], and is home to [[Crookston High School]], home of the Pirates. Students from the neighboring towns of [[Euclid, Minnesota|Euclid]], [[Gentilly Township, Polk County, Minnesota|Gentilly]], and [[Mentor, Minnesota|Mentor]] attend Crookston High. The school district enrolled 1,135 students in K-12 in the school year 2022–23.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crookston Public School District |url=https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&ID2=2709720 |access-date=April 15, 2024 |publisher=National Center for Education Statistics |archive-date=March 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306021606/https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Search=2&ID2=2709720 |url-status=live }}</ref> Before the new high school was built in 1997, students attended Central High School in downtown Crookston. Central High School had been in operation since 1913, but Crookston High School was established in 1914.

Private elementary schools include Cathedral Elementary (Catholic, formerly Mount Saint Benedict High School), Our Savior's Lutheran, and Bible Baptist.

===Higher education===
Crookston has the [[University of Minnesota Crookston]] (a campus of the [[University of Minnesota system]]). It began as an agricultural high school before becoming a two-year college and then a four-year university.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Brief overview of the history of the U of M Crookston Campus |url=https://crk.umn.edu/campus-history |access-date=April 15, 2024 |publisher=University of Minnesota Crookston}}</ref> On January 30, 2010, the new Crookston Sports Center was dedicated. The university enrolled about 1,729 students in the fall 2024 term.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quick Facts |url=https://crk.umn.edu/quick-facts |access-date=November 16, 2024 |publisher=University of Minnesota Crookston |archive-date=December 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241214191921/https://crk.umn.edu/quick-facts |url-status=live }}</ref>