BRAHAM AREA SECONDARY
BRAHAM · MN · BRAHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public · K-12 combined
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RUM RIVER SOUTH → Cambridge-Isanti High School → Cambridge-Isanti OLL Secondary 6-12 → C-I Education Center → RUSH CITY SECONDARY → Rum River East Education Program → MN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY-RUSH CITY → PINE CITY AREA LEARNING CENTER →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 31% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How BRAHAM AREA SECONDARY compares for families
What families should know about BRAHAM AREA SECONDARY.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: RUM RIVER SOUTH, Cambridge-Isanti High School, Cambridge-Isanti OLL Secondary 6-12 and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 31% 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?
75th 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
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +3.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 354 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $15,052 per student in district revenue, the 67 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $1,008,484/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUM RIVER SOUTH CAMBRIDGE |
Public | 9.1 | — | — |
| Cambridge-Isanti High School CAMBRIDGE |
Public | 9.9 | 1,582 | +2.7% |
| Cambridge-Isanti OLL Secondary 6-12 CAMBRIDGE |
Public | 9.9 | 72 | -17.2% |
| C-I Education Center CAMBRIDGE |
Public | 9.9 | 2 | — |
| RUSH CITY SECONDARY RUSH CITY |
Public | 9.9 | 252 | -10.3% |
| Rum River East Education Program CAMBRIDGE |
Public | 10.0 | — | — |
| MN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY-RUSH CITY RUSH CITY |
Public | 11.1 | 1 | — |
| PINE CITY AREA LEARNING CENTER PINE CITY |
Public | 11.8 | 22 | — |