DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR.
COKATO · MN · Dassel-Cokato Public Schools · Public
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New Century Academy → Wright Technical Center ALC → Terra Nova School → ALP Credit Recovery → LESTER PRAIRIE SECONDARY → ALC - Kimball → CROW RIVER AREA LEARNING CENTER → HUTCHINSON TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PG →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 69% (Bottom 14% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR. compares for families
What families should know about DASSEL-COKATO ALTERNATIVE CTR..
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: New Century Academy, Wright Technical Center ALC, Terra Nova School 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 14% 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 Targeted Assistance eligible
35-39% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Targeted Assistance
35-39% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The school can receive Title I funds targeted to identified students (not schoolwide).
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. 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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -13.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 78 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Century Academy HUTCHINSON |
Public · charter | 16.9 | 77 | -26.0% |
| Wright Technical Center ALC BUFFALO |
Public | 17.7 | 81 | -9.0% |
| Terra Nova School BUFFALO |
Public · charter | 17.9 | 56 | -27.3% |
| ALP Credit Recovery HOWARD LAKE |
Public | 7.3 | — | — |
| LESTER PRAIRIE SECONDARY LESTER PRAIRIE |
Public | 15.2 | 153 | -1.9% |
| ALC - Kimball KIMBALL |
Public | 17.1 | — | — |
| CROW RIVER AREA LEARNING CENTER HUTCHINSON |
Public | 16.5 | 32 | — |
| HUTCHINSON TRANSITION ASSISTANCE PG HUTCHINSON |
Public | 15.4 | 30 | — |