Project Return
WHITE BEAR LAKE · MN · Northeast Metro 916 · Public · K-12 combined
📋 At a glance
- Program details not reported to CRDC
- Academic signals not yet ingested for this school
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Project Return compares for families
What families should know about Project Return.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Distance Learning Academy - H, South Campus Education Center, Liberty Classical Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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👩🏫 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.
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 ÷ 2023 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 -50.0%/year, projecting from 2023's 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distance Learning Academy - H WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 42 | — |
| South Campus Education Center WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.3 | 61 | +22.0% |
| Liberty Classical Academy White Bear Lake |
Private | 1.3 | 330 | +47.3% |
| White Bear Area Learning Center WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.4 | 140 | +8.5% |
| White Bear Lake HS Credit Recovery WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.4 | 1 | — |
| Area Learning Center Summer WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.4 | — | — |
| Career & Technical Center WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.6 | — | — |
| 916 Mahtomedi Academy WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.6 | 29 | — |