Voters approved spending 14.5 million dollars with 1.2 million being used to renovate the 1956 portion of the old high school. The new Crookston High School opened in September of 1997. Crookston Public Schools, which serves a large rural area around the city, has enrollment of 1,860 in grades kindergarten through 12. Crookston also boasts a parochial school system. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception parish maintains the fully accredited Catherdral Elementary School system with 120 students enrolled in kindergarten through grade six.
Students have access to the Internet system.
Formerly, there also was a parochial junior and high school. There is also Our Savior's Lutheran School, another primary school. A predecessor company of the GN was awarded land for construction, and Hill gave a portion to the University of Minnesota. For years, the campus included the Northwest School of Agriculture , a boarding school for agricultural students from throughout the region. Once that need ended, the school was phased out, and from it developed the Crookston Campus of the University of Minnesota .