Great Lakes Bay Early College
UNIV CTR · MI · Saginaw ISD · Public
📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 9 calculus classes · 1 physics · 48 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 50% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 54th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Great Lakes Bay Early College 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: Bay City Adult EducationCTP, ISDLocal Programs, John Glenn 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 50% 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 · 2020-2154th percentile 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
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 -1.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 200 students:
≈ 11 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay City Adult EducationCTP BAY CITY |
Public | 4.7 | 65 | — |
| ISDLocal Programs BAY CITY |
Public | 4.9 | 26 | — |
| John Glenn High School BAY CITY |
Public | 5.0 | 864 | +1.9% |
| All Saints Central Middle & High School Bay City |
Private | 5.5 | 129 | -7.2% |
| Bay City Western High School AUBURN |
Public | 5.6 | 1,009 | -13.9% |
| Bay City Academy Farragut Campus BAY CITY |
Public · charter | 5.8 | 103 | +21.2% |
| Bay City Central High School BAY CITY |
Public | 6.0 | 921 | -20.7% |
| Valley Lutheran High School Saginaw |
Private | 6.4 | 277 | -14.8% |