Northern Lights Academy
CLOQUET · MN · Northern Lights Academy Cooperative · Public · K-12 combined
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Bethany Crisis Shelter → Rails Academy → CAAEP EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM → N.E. Regional Correction Cntr. → SPECIAL ED. N.P. → McGregor Area Learning Program → MCF-MOOSE LAKE/WILLOW RIVER → CHESTER CREEK ACADEMY →For Parents
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👩🏫 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
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 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.
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 -14.0%/year, projecting from 2024's 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany Crisis Shelter DULUTH |
Public | 21.9 | 1 | — |
| Rails Academy PROCTOR |
Public | 10.2 | — | — |
| CAAEP EXTENDED DAY PROGRAM CLOQUET |
Public | 0.0 | 7 | — |
| N.E. Regional Correction Cntr. SAGINAW |
Public | 14.9 | — | — |
| SPECIAL ED. N.P. DULUTH |
Public | 16.5 | — | — |
| McGregor Area Learning Program MCGREGOR |
Public | 41.4 | 1 | — |
| MCF-MOOSE LAKE/WILLOW RIVER MOOSE LAKE |
Public | 24.2 | 3 | — |
| CHESTER CREEK ACADEMY DULUTH |
Public | 18.1 | 5 | — |