First City School

Bemidji · MN · Bemidji Public School District · Public · K-12 combined

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At a glance

Academic signals

AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
4-yr grad rate: 10% in 2019 (Bottom 1% 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 First City School compares for families

What families should know about First City School.

▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Bemidji Area Learning Center, Bemidji Senior Lumberjack ALC, Voyageurs Expeditionary School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21

SAT/ACT test-takers

11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Test-taking intensity

0.0

takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

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 1% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

4-year graduation rate

10%

Single-point estimate

4-year cohort size

Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years

Compared against

17,988

US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

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

% inexperienced teachers (1st-2nd yr)

Strong: experienced corps. New teachers rotate through but most have ≥3 years in.

% chronic teacher absence (≥10 days/yr)

8.2%

Around the national average. Worth watching.

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

High-poverty school

Title I Schoolwide eligible

93.8%

FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).

0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

≥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 Minnesota-Twin Cities

77%

admit rate

$17,214

in-state tuition/yr · $38,362 out-of-state

1310–1480

SAT 25–75 · ACT 27–31

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.

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Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of -7.6%/year, projecting from 2024's 48 students:

2025

2027

2029

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
Bemidji Area Learning Center BEMIDJI	Public	1.2	54	-12.9%
Bemidji Senior Lumberjack ALC BEMIDJI	Public	1.2	85	-28.0%
Voyageurs Expeditionary School BEMIDJI	Public · charter	2.3	83	+59.6%
NORTH COUNTRY VOC. COOP. CTR. BEMIDJI	Public	2.4	—	—
TREKNORTH HIGH SCHOOL BEMIDJI	Public · charter	1.0	144	+4.3%
CASS LAKE-BENA AREA LRNG. CNTR. CASS LAKE	Public	15.6	84	-6.7%
Laporte Secondary LAPORTE	Public	19.6	106	+32.5%
GRYGLA SECONDARY GRYGLA	Public	66.0	48	—

At a glance

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First City School is a public high school in Bemidji, MN, enrolling 48 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.

Its federal four-year graduation rate was about 10% in the latest EDFacts release.

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.

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What is First City School's graduation rate? First City School's federal four-year graduation rate was about 10% in the latest EDFacts release.

How many students attend First City School? First City School is a public high school in Bemidji, MN, enrolling 48 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.

Analysis: Test Prep Gurus (High School Reach, highschoolreach.com). These figures may be quoted with attribution to Test Prep Gurus.

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