Harper Woods Virtual Academy
HARPER WOODS · MI · Harper Woods The School District of the City of · Public · K-12 combined
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Chandler Park Academy High School → The Harper Woods College and Career Institute → Harper Woods High School → Denby High School → Avatar Academy of Excellence → Eastpointe High School → East English Village Preparatory Academy at Finney → Turning Point Academy →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 44% (Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Harper Woods Virtual Academy compares for families
What families should know about Harper Woods Virtual Academy.
- ▸ LocallyMI sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Chandler Park Academy High School, The Harper Woods College and Career Institute, Harper Woods High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 8% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +22.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,029 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $15,877 per student in district revenue, the 1,833 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $29,102,541/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chandler Park Academy High School HARPER WOODS |
Public · charter | 0.4 | 688 | -5.0% |
| The Harper Woods College and Career Institute HARPER WOODS |
Public | 0.5 | — | — |
| Harper Woods High School HARPER WOODS |
Public | 0.6 | 877 | -6.1% |
| Denby High School DETROIT |
Public | 1.3 | 464 | -19.4% |
| Avatar Academy of Excellence HARPER WOODS |
Public | 1.4 | 78 | — |
| Eastpointe High School EASTPOINTE |
Public | 1.7 | 477 | -35.2% |
| East English Village Preparatory Academy at Finney DETROIT |
Public | 2.6 | 639 | -19.5% |
| Turning Point Academy DETROIT |
Public | 2.6 | 15 | — |