Blue Water Middle College Academy
PORT HURON · MI · Blue Water Middle College · Public charter
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Port Huron Schools Adult Learning Center → Port Huron Schools Phoenix Academy → Port Huron High School → Port Huron Northern High School → St Clair County Intervention Academy → Landmark Academy → Marysville High School → Woodland Developmental Center →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 17 calculus classes · 16 physics · 46 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 44% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 6% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 67% (Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Blue Water Middle College Academy compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyMI sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Port Huron Schools Adult Learning Center, Port Huron Schools Phoenix Academy, Port Huron High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 44% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 6% 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?
Bottom 13% 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.
👩🏫 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
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -11.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 205 students:
≈ 94 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 $11,346 per student in district revenue, the 94 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $1,066,524/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.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Port Huron Schools Adult Learning Center PORT HURON |
Public | 0.8 | 6 | — |
| Port Huron Schools Phoenix Academy PORT HURON |
Public | 1.1 | 141 | +35.6% |
| Port Huron High School PORT HURON |
Public | 1.2 | 988 | -17.6% |
| Port Huron Northern High School PORT HURON |
Public | 3.3 | 1,089 | -8.7% |
| St Clair County Intervention Academy PORT HURON |
Public · charter | 3.6 | 24 | — |
| Landmark Academy KIMBALL |
Public · charter | 4.6 | 220 | -4.8% |
| Marysville High School MARYSVILLE |
Public | 5.2 | 806 | +1.0% |
| Woodland Developmental Center MARYSVILLE |
Public | 5.6 | 33 | — |