City Academy

SAINT PAUL · MN · City Academy · Public charter

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Similar nearby schools

Most similar nearby schools

Community of Peace Academy High Sch → LEAP High School → ALC Gateway to College → HOPE Community Academy High School → FACE TO FACE ACADEMY → MMSA Secondary School → STEP Academy Charter School → Johnson Senior High →

📋 At a glance

Programs & features

✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)

Academic signals

🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 33% of US high schools
🎓 4-yr grad rate: 57% (Bottom 11% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How City Academy compares for families

What families should know about City Academy.

▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Community of Peace Academy High Sch, LEAP High School, ALC Gateway to College and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

0.0

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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?

Bottom 11% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

4-year graduation rate

57%

Range: 55–59%

4-year cohort size

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)

Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.

% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)

0.0%

Strong attendance culture among teachers.

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

87.4%

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)

≥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

Share of students absent 15+ days

108.9%

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

147

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

Grade 12 went from 101 in 2021 to 105 in 2024 — over 3 years.

+4.0%

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

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +5.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 135 students:

2025

142

2027

158

2029

176

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
Community of Peace Academy High Sch SAINT PAUL	Public · charter	0.3	250	+0.0%
LEAP High School SAINT PAUL	Public	0.4	220	+84.9%
ALC Gateway to College SAINT PAUL	Public	0.4	107	-18.3%
HOPE Community Academy High School SAINT PAUL	Public · charter	0.6	124	+55.0%
FACE TO FACE ACADEMY SAINT PAUL	Public · charter	0.7	83	-8.8%
MMSA Secondary School SAINT PAUL	Public · charter	0.8	171	+24.8%
STEP Academy Charter School SAINT PAUL	Public · charter	0.9	224	-1.8%
Johnson Senior High SAINT PAUL	Public	1.0	1,076	-9.5%