Project Return
WHITE BEAR LAKE · MN · Northeast Metro 916 · Public · K-12 combined
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White Bear Lake HS Credit Recovery → Therapeutic Education Collective (T → Area Learning Center Summer → Career & Technical Center → Shared Time Program → Out of State Care and Treatment → Aware → CSE - OLL HS →📋 At a glance
- Program details not reported to CRDC
- Academic signals not yet ingested for this school
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Project Return compares for families
What families should know about Project Return.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: White Bear Lake HS Credit Recovery, Therapeutic Education Collective (T, Area Learning Center Summer and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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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.
🏛️ 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. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2023 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 -50.0%/year, projecting from 2023's 1 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.
Most similar nearby high schools
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| White Bear Lake HS Credit Recovery WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.4 | 1 | — |
| Therapeutic Education Collective (T NORTH ST PAUL |
Public | 4.4 | 2 | — |
| Area Learning Center Summer WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.4 | — | — |
| Career & Technical Center WHITE BEAR LAKE |
Public | 1.6 | — | — |
| Shared Time Program SHOREVIEW |
Public | 7.0 | — | — |
| Out of State Care and Treatment SHOREVIEW |
Public | 7.0 | — | — |
| Aware HUGO |
Public | 7.1 | — | — |
| CSE - OLL HS SAINT PAUL |
Public · charter | 7.7 | — | — |