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Northwest Career & Technical Academy/A WA Skills Center

Mount Vernon · WA · Mount Vernon School District · Public

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Programs & features
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Academic signals
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Northwest Career & Technical Academy/A WA Skills Center compares for families

What families should know about Northwest Career & Technical Academy/A WA Skills Center.

  • LocallyWA 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: Mount Vernon Open Doors, Open Doors, Mount Vernon High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Targeted Assistance eligible

35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance

39.5%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

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

Share of students absent 15+ days
316.3%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
136
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

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 -32.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 43 students:

2025
29
2027
13
2029
6

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.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Mount Vernon Open Doors
Mount Vernon
Public 0.1 84
Open Doors
Mt. Vernon
Public 0.2 12
Mount Vernon High School
Mount Vernon
Public 1.2 1,849 -7.3%
Skagit County Detention Center
MOUNT VERNON
Public 1.7 4
Mount Vernon Special Ed
Mount Vernon
Public 1.9 31
Skagit Academy
Mount Vernon
Public 2.6 72 -10.0%
Mount Vernon Christian School
Mount Vernon
Private 2.7 514 +76.6%
Skagit Adventist Academy
Burlington
Private 2.9 125 +0.0%

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