Youth Center School
KALAMAZOO · MI · Kalamazoo RESA · Public · K-12 combined
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WoodsEdge Learning Center → Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Youth Center School → The Epic Center → Lets Talk About It Girls Home → Lets Talk About It Home for Young Men → Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center → Outlook Academy → Boys To Men Group Home →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 33% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Youth Center School compares for families
What families should know about Youth Center School.
- ▸ LocallyMI 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: WoodsEdge Learning Center, Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Youth Center School, The Epic Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 33% by test-taker volume
Source: 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.
👩🏫 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
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $13,138/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
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.
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 +8.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 51 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WoodsEdge Learning Center PORTAGE |
Public | 5.0 | 61 | +15.1% |
| Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Youth Center School KALAMAZOO |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| The Epic Center KALAMAZOO |
Public | 1.5 | — | — |
| Lets Talk About It Girls Home KALAMAZOO |
Public | 1.9 | — | — |
| Lets Talk About It Home for Young Men KALAMAZOO |
Public | 1.9 | — | — |
| Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center KALAMAZOO |
Public | 2.0 | — | — |
| Outlook Academy ALLEGAN |
Public · charter | 20.9 | 33 | — |
| Boys To Men Group Home KALAMAZOO |
Public | 5.5 | — | — |