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BayArenac Community High School → Merrill High School → Saginaw Correctional Facility → Hemlock High School → Bay City Adult EducationCTP → Freeland Middle SchoolHigh School → John Glenn High School → Carson CityCrystal High School →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 9 calculus classes · 1 physics · 48 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 50% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 54th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Great Lakes Bay Early College compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ 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: BayArenac Community High School, Merrill High School, Saginaw Correctional Facility and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 50% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2154th percentile 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
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.
🏛️ 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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -0.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 200 students:
≈ 8 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Most similar nearby high schools
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BayArenac Community High School ESSEXVILLE |
Public · charter | 8.2 | 180 | +2.9% |
| Merrill High School MERRILL |
Public | 20.5 | 165 | -18.3% |
| Saginaw Correctional Facility FREELAND |
Public | 7.0 | — | — |
| Hemlock High School HEMLOCK |
Public | 15.6 | 341 | +2.7% |
| Bay City Adult EducationCTP BAY CITY |
Public | 4.7 | 65 | — |
| Freeland Middle SchoolHigh School FREELAND |
Public | 6.5 | 569 | +0.7% |
| John Glenn High School BAY CITY |
Public | 5.0 | 864 | +1.9% |
| Carson CityCrystal High School CARSON CITY |
Public | 50.5 | 187 | -28.1% |