Heartland Girls Ranch
BENSON · MN · BENSON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public · K-12 combined
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BENSON SECONDARY → BENSON AREA LEARNING CENTER → KMS Learning Center → KERKHOVEN SECONDARY → HANCOCK SEC. → Minnewaska Area WIN Academy → MINNEWASKA SECONDARY → Morris Area Secondary →📋 At a glance
- Program details not reported to CRDC
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 24% (Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Heartland Girls Ranch compares for families
What families should know about Heartland Girls Ranch.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: BENSON SECONDARY, BENSON AREA LEARNING CENTER, KMS Learning Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 4% 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.
🏛️ 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: 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 -6.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 22 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BENSON SECONDARY BENSON |
Public | 0.7 | 193 | -3.5% |
| BENSON AREA LEARNING CENTER BENSON |
Public | 0.7 | 13 | — |
| KMS Learning Center KERKHOVEN |
Public | 15.5 | — | — |
| KERKHOVEN SECONDARY KERKHOVEN |
Public | 15.5 | 241 | +3.9% |
| HANCOCK SEC. HANCOCK |
Public | 15.6 | 130 | +4.0% |
| Minnewaska Area WIN Academy STARBUCK |
Public | 20.1 | 7 | — |
| MINNEWASKA SECONDARY GLENWOOD |
Public | 21.8 | 424 | +9.8% |
| Morris Area Secondary MORRIS |
Public | 23.5 | 360 | +3.7% |