Staars
HASTINGS · MN · Hastings Public School District · Public
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Great Rivers Adult Education → 917 Riverside School → 917 DCALS Main Extended Day EDOP → Allina Hastings PHP → 917 New Chance → Aris → 917 TEA → 917 CASE →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, 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: Great Rivers Adult Education, 917 Riverside School, 917 DCALS Main Extended Day EDOP 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.
🏛️ 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: 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.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Rivers Adult Education COTTAGE GROVE |
Public | 6.2 | 7 | — |
| 917 Riverside School HASTINGS |
Public | 1.1 | 15 | — |
| 917 DCALS Main Extended Day EDOP ROSEMOUNT |
Public | 10.4 | 10 | — |
| Allina Hastings PHP HASTINGS |
Public | 0.4 | — | — |
| 917 New Chance HASTINGS |
Public | 1.1 | 3 | — |
| Aris WOODBURY |
Public | 13.6 | 6 | — |
| 917 TEA APPLE VALLEY |
Public | 15.6 | 10 | — |
| 917 CASE ROSEMOUNT |
Public | 12.2 | 5 | — |