ST PAUL CONSERVATORY PERFORMING ART
SAINT PAUL · MN · ST PAUL CONSERVATORY PERFORMING ART · Public charter
📄 Shareable scorecard →📋 At a glance
- 📚 10 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 3 calculus classes · 6 physics · 11 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 78th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 43% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How ST PAUL CONSERVATORY PERFORMING ART compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 22% nationally with 10 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Creative Arts Secondary School, Juvenile Service Center, United Hospital Adolescent Program and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
78th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 43% by test-taker volume
Source: 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?
90th percentile nationally
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
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
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: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. 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 -8.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 336 students:
≈ 120 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $11,450 per student in district revenue, the 120 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,374,000/year in funding at risk.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creative Arts Secondary School SAINT PAUL |
Public | 0.2 | 179 | +6.5% |
| Juvenile Service Center SAINT PAUL |
Public | 0.3 | 9 | — |
| United Hospital Adolescent Program SAINT PAUL |
Public | 0.6 | 1 | — |
| Home/Hospital Instruction SAINT PAUL |
Public | 0.7 | 2 | — |
| St. Paul City High School SAINT PAUL |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 152 | +120.3% |
| Christ'S Household Of Faith School Saint Paul |
Private | 1.0 | 127 | -17.0% |
| Journeys Secondary School SAINT PAUL |
Public | 1.0 | 73 | +10.6% |
| Open World Learning Secondary SAINT PAUL |
Public | 1.4 | 282 | +16.0% |