Pine River-Backus ALP
PINE RIVER · MN · PINE RIVER-BACKUS SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public
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PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL → Foothills Christian Academy → PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH → Up North Learning Center → NEVIS SECONDARY → NEVIS AREA LEARNING PROGRAM → Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Sec. → Central Lakes Adventure School →📋 At a glance
- Program details not reported to CRDC
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 49% (Bottom 10% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pine River-Backus ALP compares for families
What families should know about Pine River-Backus ALP.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL, Foothills Christian Academy, PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 10% 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 Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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 57 students:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL PINE RIVER |
Public | 0.1 | 238 | -0.4% |
| Foothills Christian Academy Backus |
Private | 8.3 | 42 | — |
| PEQUOT LAKES SENIOR HIGH PEQUOT LAKES |
Public | 9.9 | 599 | -3.7% |
| Up North Learning Center WALKER |
Public | 24.8 | 1 | — |
| NEVIS SECONDARY NEVIS |
Public | 26.3 | 197 | +7.1% |
| NEVIS AREA LEARNING PROGRAM NEVIS |
Public | 26.3 | — | — |
| Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Sec. WALKER |
Public | 26.7 | 212 | -4.1% |
| Central Lakes Adventure School PILLAGER |
Public · charter | 26.9 | 32 | — |