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Burnsville Area Learning Center

BURNSVILLE · MN · Burnsville-Eagan-Savage Schools · Public · K-12 combined

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Burnsville Area Learning Center compares for families

What families should know about Burnsville Area Learning Center.

  • LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Learners Center, BES Transition Program, One School, Global and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

55.7%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

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

Share of students absent 15+ days
38.5%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
520
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

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 went from 1,470 in 2021 to 1,350 in 2024 — over 3 years.
-8.2%

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -2.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,350 students:

2025
1,312
2027
1,240
2029
1,171

≈ 179 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 $19,663 per student in district revenue, the 179 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $3,519,677/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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Learners Center
BURNSVILLE
Public 0.0
BES Transition Program
BURNSVILLE
Public 0.0 42
One School, Global
Burnsville
Private 0.2 29
Burnsville High School
BURNSVILLE
Public 1.1 2,029 -4.6%
Unity High School
Burnsville
Private 2.8 63
New Code Academy High School
BLOOMINGTON
Public 2.8 88 -11.1%
APPLE VALLEY SENIOR HIGH
APPLE VALLEY
Public 3.3 1,999 +9.4%
Kennedy High School
BLOOMINGTON
Public 3.8 1,578 -1.4%

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