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LINCOLN EAST HIGH SCHOOL → MORTON SCHOOL → LINCOLN NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL → NEBRASKA YOUTH ACADEMY → BRYAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL → LPS GRADUATION PATHWAYS PROGRAM → HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SUPPORT PROGRAM → LINCOLN SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL →📋 At a glance
- 📚 12 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- ✅ Gifted & talented program
- 🔢 6 calculus classes · 3 physics · 18 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: Top 3.7% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 76th percentile by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Lps Career Academy compares for families
Among the nation's most academically rigorous high schools.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor sits in the top 3.7% of US high schools with 12 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyNE students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+4 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: LINCOLN EAST HIGH SCHOOL, MORTON SCHOOL, LINCOLN NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
Top 3.7% of US high schools
✅ Gifted/talented program
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2176th 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.
👩🏫 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.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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 $17,747/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.
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.
Not enough enrollment history on file to chart a trend for this school yet.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LINCOLN EAST HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLN |
Public | 1.4 | 1,982 | -12.0% |
| MORTON SCHOOL LINCOLN |
Public | 2.4 | — | — |
| LINCOLN NORTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLN |
Public | 2.4 | 1,819 | -2.3% |
| NEBRASKA YOUTH ACADEMY LINCOLN |
Public | 2.4 | — | — |
| BRYAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL LINCOLN |
Public | 2.7 | — | — |
| LPS GRADUATION PATHWAYS PROGRAM LINCOLN |
Public | 2.7 | — | — |
| HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT SUPPORT PROGRAM LINCOLN |
Public | 3.6 | — | — |
| LINCOLN SOUTHEAST HIGH SCHOOL LINCOLN |
Public | 4.1 | 1,848 | -6.8% |