St. Croix Preparatory Academy Upper
STILLWATER · MN · ST. CROIX PREPARATORY ACADEMY · Public charter
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MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY → Twin Cities Academy → STILLWATER DIST. SPECIAL SERVICES → Community of Peace Academy High Sch → STEP Academy Charter School → LEAP High School → Career & Technical Center → Area Learning Center Summer →📋 At a glance
- 📚 15 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 6 calculus classes · 6 physics · 7 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 80th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 68th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 97% (90th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How St. Croix Preparatory Academy Upper compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 20% nationally with 15 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY, Twin Cities Academy, STILLWATER DIST. SPECIAL SERVICES and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
80th percentile nationally
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 · 2020-2168th 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
90th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 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 Minnesota-Twin Cities
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 $16,778/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. 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 +1.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 391 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $12,226 per student in district revenue, the 20 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $244,520/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MATH AND SCIENCE ACADEMY WOODBURY |
Public · charter | 9.7 | 432 | +53.7% |
| Twin Cities Academy SAINT PAUL |
Public · charter | 12.2 | 366 | +29.8% |
| STILLWATER DIST. SPECIAL SERVICES STILLWATER |
Public | 1.9 | — | — |
| Community of Peace Academy High Sch SAINT PAUL |
Public · charter | 14.1 | 250 | +0.0% |
| STEP Academy Charter School SAINT PAUL |
Public · charter | 13.6 | 224 | -1.8% |
| LEAP High School SAINT PAUL |
Public | 13.6 | 220 | +84.9% |
| Career & Technical Center WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 9.2 | — | — |
| Area Learning Center Summer WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 10.1 | — | — |