HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM
HOWARD LAKE · MN · HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED · Public
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HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. → ALP Credit Recovery → Step TD Program → Trek Program → Holy Trinity School → DASSEL-COKATO SENIOR HIGH → LESTER PRAIRIE SECONDARY → Watertown Mayer High →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 1% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM compares for families
What families should know about HLWW ALTERNATIVE LEARNING PROGRAM.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC., ALP Credit Recovery, Step TD Program and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 1% 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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 -8.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 24 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOWARD LAKE-WAVERLY-WINSTED SEC. HOWARD LAKE |
Public | 0.0 | 411 | +14.8% |
| ALP Credit Recovery HOWARD LAKE |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| Step TD Program HOWARD LAKE |
Public | 2.1 | 18 | — |
| Trek Program HOWARD LAKE |
Public | 2.1 | 3 | — |
| Holy Trinity School Winsted |
Private | 4.4 | 134 | -7.6% |
| DASSEL-COKATO SENIOR HIGH COKATO |
Public | 9.0 | 601 | +1.7% |
| LESTER PRAIRIE SECONDARY LESTER PRAIRIE |
Public | 9.8 | 153 | -1.9% |
| Watertown Mayer High WATERTOWN |
Public | 10.9 | 516 | +6.6% |