Deer River Secondary
DEER RIVER · MN · DEER RIVER PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public · K-12 combined
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GREENWAY SENIOR HIGH → GRAND RAPIDS AREA LEARNING CENTER → PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL → NASHWAUK SECONDARY → Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Sec. → CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY → CHISHOLM SECONDARY → NEVIS SECONDARY →At a glance
- Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 20% by test-taker volume
- 4-yr grad rate: 95% in 2019 (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Deer River Secondary 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: GREENWAY SENIOR HIGH, GRAND RAPIDS AREA LEARNING CENTER, PINE RIVER-BACKUS 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 20% 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
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 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 strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 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 425 students:
≈ 13 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 $22,947 per student in district revenue, the 13 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $298,311/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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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GREENWAY SENIOR HIGH COLERAINE |
Public | 17.4 | 271 | -9.7% |
| GRAND RAPIDS AREA LEARNING CENTER GRAND RAPIDS |
Public | 14.1 | 129 | +7.5% |
| PINE RIVER-BACKUS HIGH SCHOOL PINE RIVER |
Public | 51.0 | 238 | -0.4% |
| NASHWAUK SECONDARY NASHWAUK |
Public | 29.4 | 151 | -16.1% |
| Walker-Hackensack-Akeley Sec. WALKER |
Public | 40.4 | 212 | -4.1% |
| CASS LAKE-BENA SECONDARY CASS LAKE |
Public | 38.5 | 263 | -10.2% |
| CHISHOLM SECONDARY CHISHOLM |
Public | 43.7 | 202 | -1.9% |
| NEVIS SECONDARY NEVIS |
Public | 55.6 | 197 | +7.1% |