BURKE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL
Lignite · ND · BURKE CENTRAL 36 · Public · K-12 combined
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WOLVES CENTER ACADEMY → MARMOT SCHOOL 6-12 → SELFRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL → BRAVE CENTER ACADEMY → MINNEWAUKAN HIGH SCHOOL → SAINT JOHN HIGH SCHOOL → FOUR WINDS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL → BOWMAN CO HIGH SCHOOL →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 7% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How BURKE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL compares for families
What families should know about BURKE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL.
- ▸ LocallyND students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+9 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: WOLVES CENTER ACADEMY, MARMOT SCHOOL 6-12, SELFRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 7% 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
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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: 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.
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 +4.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 43 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WOLVES CENTER ACADEMY Watford City |
Public | 80.7 | 30 | — |
| MARMOT SCHOOL 6-12 Mandan |
Public | 161.5 | 19 | — |
| SELFRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL Selfridge |
Public | 210.5 | 18 | — |
| BRAVE CENTER ACADEMY Mandan |
Public | 160.0 | 50 | — |
| MINNEWAUKAN HIGH SCHOOL Minnewaukan |
Public | 159.8 | 71 | -5.3% |
| SAINT JOHN HIGH SCHOOL Saint John |
Public | 129.7 | 137 | +24.5% |
| FOUR WINDS COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL Fort Totten |
Public | 173.8 | 159 | -16.8% |
| BOWMAN CO HIGH SCHOOL Bowman |
Public | 190.2 | 161 | +12.6% |