Charlton Heston Academy
Saint Helen · MI · Charlton Heston Academy · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Roscommon High School → Houghton Lake JrSr High School → COOR ATIC Advanced Technical Innovation Center → MioAuSable High School → WhittemorePrescott JrSr High School → Ogemaw Heights High School → Harrison Community High School → Houghton Lake Community Education →At a glance
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: 71st percentile by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 84% in 2019 (Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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How Charlton Heston Academy compares for families
What families should know about Charlton Heston Academy.
- ▸ LocallyMI sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Roscommon High School, Houghton Lake JrSr High School, COOR ATIC Advanced Technical Innovation Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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?
Bottom 33% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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 Michigan-Ann Arbor
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 $13,138/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 ÷ 2021 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 -1.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 716 students:
≈ 44 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 $11,908 per student in district revenue, the 44 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $523,952/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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roscommon High School ROSCOMMON |
Public | 14.3 | 274 | -3.9% |
| Houghton Lake JrSr High School HOUGHTON LAKE |
Public | 16.2 | 313 | -14.0% |
| COOR ATIC Advanced Technical Innovation Center ROSCOMMON |
Public | 14.2 | — | — |
| MioAuSable High School MIO |
Public | 24.5 | 152 | -8.4% |
| WhittemorePrescott JrSr High School WHITTEMORE |
Public | 27.3 | 170 | -28.0% |
| Ogemaw Heights High School WEST BRANCH |
Public | 14.2 | 592 | +2.8% |
| Harrison Community High School HARRISON |
Public | 30.9 | 281 | -16.6% |
| Houghton Lake Community Education HOUGHTON LAKE |
Public | 19.6 | 103 | +39.2% |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantCharlton Heston Academy is a public high school in Saint Helen, MI, enrolling 716 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
162 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 71% of U.S. high schools.
Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 84% in the latest EDFacts release.
54% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
What is Charlton Heston Academy's graduation rate? Charlton Heston Academy's federal four-year graduation rate was about 84% in the latest EDFacts release.
How many students attend Charlton Heston Academy? Charlton Heston Academy is a public high school in Saint Helen, MI, enrolling 716 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
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