Belle Plaine Senior High
BELLE PLAINE · MN · BELLE PLAINE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public
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Jordan High School → Belle Plaine Credit Recovery → Tri-City United High School → Central Senior High → GLENCOE-SILVER LAKE SENIOR HIGH → SIBLEY EAST-ARLINGTON SENIOR HIGH → Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High → Jordan Credit Recovery →📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🔢 1 calculus classes · 6 physics · 4 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 50% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 71st percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 92% (60th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Belle Plaine Senior High compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Jordan High School, Belle Plaine Credit Recovery, Tri-City United High School 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 · 2020-2171st 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?
60th 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.
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 -0.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 475 students:
≈ 15 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 $14,330 per student in district revenue, the 15 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $214,950/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jordan High School JORDAN |
Public | 7.0 | 619 | +1.5% |
| Belle Plaine Credit Recovery BELLE PLAINE |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| Tri-City United High School MONTGOMERY |
Public | 15.0 | 603 | +3.3% |
| Central Senior High NORWOOD YOUNG AMERICA |
Public | 13.0 | 337 | +0.3% |
| GLENCOE-SILVER LAKE SENIOR HIGH GLENCOE |
Public | 21.0 | 468 | -11.4% |
| SIBLEY EAST-ARLINGTON SENIOR HIGH ARLINGTON |
Public | 15.2 | 338 | -3.7% |
| Le Sueur-Henderson Middle/High LE SUEUR |
Public | 12.9 | 281 | -16.1% |
| Jordan Credit Recovery JORDAN |
Public | 7.1 | — | — |