Northwest Career & Technical Academy/A WA Skills Center
Mount Vernon · WA · Mount Vernon School District · Public
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Mount Vernon Open Doors → Open Doors → Mount Vernon High School → Skagit County Detention Center → Mount Vernon Special Ed → Skagit Academy → Mount Vernon Christian School → Skagit Adventist Academy →📋 At a glance
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Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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
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: 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:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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% |