Dunes Alternative High School
HOLLAND · MI · West Ottawa Public School District · Public
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West Ottawa High School Campus → Lighthouse Academy Juvenile Justice Institute → Calvary Schools Of Holland → Careerline Tech Center → Sheldon Pines School → Holland High School → Black River Public School MiddleHigh → Holland Christian High School →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 18% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 69% (Bottom 14% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Dunes Alternative High School compares for families
What families should know about Dunes Alternative High School.
- ▸ 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: West Ottawa High School Campus, Lighthouse Academy Juvenile Justice Institute, Calvary Schools Of Holland and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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 14% 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
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 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 +9.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 81 students:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Ottawa High School Campus HOLLAND |
Public | 0.3 | 2,187 | -2.1% |
| Lighthouse Academy Juvenile Justice Institute HOLLAND |
Public · charter | 3.7 | 12 | — |
| Calvary Schools Of Holland Holland |
Private | 3.9 | 173 | -7.0% |
| Careerline Tech Center HOLLAND |
Public | 4.1 | — | — |
| Sheldon Pines School HOLLAND |
Public | 4.3 | 12 | — |
| Holland High School HOLLAND |
Public | 4.3 | 967 | -4.7% |
| Black River Public School MiddleHigh HOLLAND |
Public · charter | 4.6 | 334 | +19.7% |
| Holland Christian High School Holland |
Private | 5.0 | 623 | -15.7% |