DickinsonIron Special Education
KINGSFORD · MI · Dickinson-Iron ISD · Public · K-12 combined
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DickinsonIron Tech Ed Center → MarquetteAlger Administrative Unit → Beaver Island Community School → Learning Center → Whitefish Township School → Burt Township School → Sunrise Academy → IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division →For Parents
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🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
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 ÷ 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 -0.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 58 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.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DickinsonIron Tech Ed Center KINGSFORD |
Public | 0.2 | — | — |
| MarquetteAlger Administrative Unit MARQUETTE |
Public | 61.3 | 12 | — |
| Beaver Island Community School BEAVER ISLAND |
Public | 123.6 | 17 | — |
| Learning Center ESCANABA |
Public | 47.3 | 11 | — |
| Whitefish Township School PARADISE |
Public | 156.0 | 19 | — |
| Burt Township School GRAND MARAIS |
Public | 117.1 | 10 | — |
| Sunrise Academy ELK RAPIDS |
Public | 145.1 | 21 | — |
| IshpemingNegauneeNICE Comm Ed Division ISHPEMING |
Public | 51.2 | 22 | — |