North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus
FOREST LAKE · MN · NORTH LAKES ACADEMY · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Forest Lake Area Community School → Community School Credit Recovery → Forest Lake Therapeutic Education → Step → Forest Lake Area High School → Out-of-State Care and Treatment → LILA Upper School → Chisago Christian School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 6 AP courses offered — Strong
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: 56th percentile nationally
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 84% (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 56th percentile nationally with 6 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Forest Lake Area Community School, Community School Credit Recovery, Forest Lake Therapeutic Education and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Strong — solid AP program + advanced courses
56th percentile nationally
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 · 2020-21Source: 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 33% 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 Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
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: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. 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 +15.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 245 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $13,031 per student in district revenue, the 253 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $3,296,843/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Lake Area Community School FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 113 | +8.7% |
| Community School Credit Recovery FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 34 | — |
| Forest Lake Therapeutic Education FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 4 | — |
| Step FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.7 | 47 | — |
| Forest Lake Area High School FOREST LAKE |
Public | 1.7 | 1,805 | -4.1% |
| Out-of-State Care and Treatment FOREST LAKE |
Public | 1.8 | — | — |
| LILA Upper School FOREST LAKE |
Public · charter | 2.6 | 283 | +16.5% |
| Chisago Christian School Chisago City |
Private | 6.8 | 90 | +7.1% |