Similar nearby schools
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Allina Hastings PHP → 917 Riverside School → 917 New Chance → Hastings High School → HOA High School → Great Rivers Adult Education → Park High School → Next Step Transition Program →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How STAARS compares for families
What families should know about STAARS.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Allina Hastings PHP, 917 Riverside School, 917 New Chance and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
Lower-need school
Not Title I eligible (FRPL < 25%)
<25% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Well below the Title I threshold; expect a higher-income student body on average.
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 +0.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allina Hastings PHP HASTINGS |
Public | 0.4 | — | — |
| 917 Riverside School HASTINGS |
Public | 1.1 | 15 | — |
| 917 New Chance HASTINGS |
Public | 1.1 | 3 | — |
| Hastings High School HASTINGS |
Public | 1.2 | 1,301 | -3.1% |
| HOA High School HASTINGS |
Public | 1.2 | 13 | — |
| Great Rivers Adult Education COTTAGE GROVE |
Public | 6.2 | 7 | — |
| Park High School COTTAGE GROVE |
Public | 7.4 | 1,992 | +1.4% |
| Next Step Transition Program COTTAGE GROVE |
Public | 7.8 | 86 | -5.5% |