The Next Step
NORTH SAINT PAUL · MN · North St. Paul-Maplewood Oakdale · Public
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Lionsgate Academy AIM → North Senior High → Webster K-12 → Therapeutic Education Collective (T → Hill Murray School → PrairieCare Maplewood → Passages Transition Program → Mounds Park Academy →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 4% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How The Next Step compares for families
What families should know about The Next Step.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Lionsgate Academy AIM, North Senior High, Webster K-12 and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 4% 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.
👩🏫 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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
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
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. 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 -5.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lionsgate Academy AIM NORTH SAINT PAUL |
Public · charter | 0.2 | 51 | — |
| North Senior High NORTH SAINT PAUL |
Public | 0.4 | 1,649 | +2.0% |
| Webster K-12 NORTH ST PAUL |
Public | 1.2 | 19 | — |
| Therapeutic Education Collective (T NORTH ST PAUL |
Public | 1.2 | 2 | — |
| Hill Murray School Saint Paul |
Private | 1.4 | 952 | +17.4% |
| PrairieCare Maplewood MAPLEWOOD |
Public | 1.7 | 11 | — |
| Passages Transition Program MAHTOMEDI |
Public | 1.7 | 10 | — |
| Mounds Park Academy Saint Paul |
Private | 1.7 | 549 | +18.8% |