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EDVISIONS OFF CAMPUS SCHOOL → MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL → Altona Christian School → Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High → Belle Plaine Credit Recovery → BELLE PLAINE SENIOR HIGH → Belle Plaine Transitions/Work Exper → SIBLEY EAST-ARLINGTON SENIOR HIGH →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Hilltop ALP compares for families
What families should know about Hilltop ALP.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: EDVISIONS OFF CAMPUS SCHOOL, MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL, Altona Christian School 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.
🏛️ 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.
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -5.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDVISIONS OFF CAMPUS SCHOOL HENDERSON |
Public · charter | 0.5 | 72 | -7.7% |
| MINNESOTA NEW COUNTRY SCHOOL HENDERSON |
Public · charter | 0.6 | 91 | -8.1% |
| Altona Christian School Henderson |
Private | 3.1 | 43 | — |
| Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High LE SUEUR |
Public | 4.4 | 281 | -16.1% |
| Belle Plaine Credit Recovery BELLE PLAINE |
Public | 9.6 | — | — |
| BELLE PLAINE SENIOR HIGH BELLE PLAINE |
Public | 9.6 | 475 | -2.1% |
| Belle Plaine Transitions/Work Exper BELLE PLAINE |
Public | 9.8 | 10 | — |
| SIBLEY EAST-ARLINGTON SENIOR HIGH ARLINGTON |
Public | 10.4 | 338 | -3.7% |