DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL
Des Lacs · ND · UNITED 7 · Public · K-12 combined
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- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 1 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 29% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 41% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL compares for families
What families should know about DES LACS-BURLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL.
- ▸ LocallyND students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+9 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: BOWMAN CO HIGH SCHOOL, NEW TOWN HIGH SCHOOL, FOUR WINDS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 29% 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 · 2020-21Bottom 41% 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?
75th 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 North Dakota
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 $18,551/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 strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. 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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
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 294 students:
≈ 14 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.
Revenue at risk
At $16,152 per student in district revenue, the 14 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $226,128/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BOWMAN CO HIGH SCHOOL Bowman |
Public | 167.5 | 161 | +12.6% |
| NEW TOWN HIGH SCHOOL New Town |
Public | 46.7 | 259 | -7.2% |
| FOUR WINDS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Fort Totten |
Public | 118.6 | 159 | -16.8% |
| SAINT JOHN HIGH SCHOOL Saint John |
Public | 96.9 | 137 | +24.5% |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Belcourt |
Public | 92.9 | 557 | +0.2% |
| MINNEWAUKAN HIGH SCHOOL Minnewaukan |
Public | 105.6 | 71 | -5.3% |
| BRAVE CENTER ACADEMY Mandan |
Public | 102.1 | 50 | — |
| DICKINSON HIGH SCHOOL Dickinson |
Public | 110.8 | 1,022 | +4.1% |