First City School
BEMIDJI · MN · Bemidji Public School District · Public · K-12 combined
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Oshki Manidoo Center → TREKNORTH HIGH SCHOOL → Lakeside Learning Center → Bemidji Senior High → Bemidji Area Learning Center → Bemidji Senior Lumberjack ALC → Voyageurs Expeditionary School → NORTH COUNTRY VOC. COOP. CTR. →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 10% (Bottom 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How First City School compares for families
What families should know about First City School.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Oshki Manidoo Center, TREKNORTH HIGH SCHOOL, Lakeside Learning Center 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 1% 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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -7.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 48 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oshki Manidoo Center BEMIDJI |
Public | 0.4 | 4 | — |
| TREKNORTH HIGH SCHOOL BEMIDJI |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 144 | +4.3% |
| Lakeside Learning Center BEMIDJI |
Public | 1.1 | 6 | — |
| Bemidji Senior High BEMIDJI |
Public | 1.2 | 1,537 | +10.7% |
| Bemidji Area Learning Center BEMIDJI |
Public | 1.2 | 54 | -12.9% |
| Bemidji Senior Lumberjack ALC BEMIDJI |
Public | 1.2 | 85 | -28.0% |
| Voyageurs Expeditionary School BEMIDJI |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 83 | +59.6% |
| NORTH COUNTRY VOC. COOP. CTR. BEMIDJI |
Public | 2.4 | — | — |