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Forest Lake Area Community School → Community School Credit Recovery → Forest Lake Therapeutic Education → North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus → Forest Lake Area High School → Out-of-State Care and Treatment → LILA Upper School → Chisago Christian School →📋 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 Step compares for families
What families should know about Step.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Forest Lake Area Community School, Community School Credit Recovery, Forest Lake Therapeutic Education 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
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. 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 -2.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 47 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Lake Area Community School FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 113 | +8.7% |
| Community School Credit Recovery FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 34 | — |
| Forest Lake Therapeutic Education FOREST LAKE |
Public | 0.5 | 4 | — |
| North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus FOREST LAKE |
Public · charter | 0.7 | 166 | +3.8% |
| Forest Lake Area High School FOREST LAKE |
Public | 1.3 | 1,805 | -4.1% |
| Out-of-State Care and Treatment FOREST LAKE |
Public | 1.5 | — | — |
| LILA Upper School FOREST LAKE |
Public · charter | 2.7 | 283 | +16.5% |
| Chisago Christian School Chisago City |
Private | 6.4 | 90 | +7.1% |