TRI-COUNTY SECONDARY
KARLSTAD · MN · TRI-COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT · Public · K-12 combined
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Greenbush-Middle River Secondary → LANCASTER SECONDARY → Stephen-Argyle Central High School → KITTSON CENTRAL SECONDARY → BADGER SECONDARY → NW REGION INTERDISTRICT COUNCIL → NORMAN COUNTY EAST SECONDARY → Bemidji Area Learning Center →📋 At a glance
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 33% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 14% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How TRI-COUNTY SECONDARY compares for families
What families should know about TRI-COUNTY SECONDARY.
- ▸ LocallyMN students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+7 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Greenbush-Middle River Secondary, LANCASTER SECONDARY, Stephen-Argyle Central High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 14% 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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
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
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program
40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.
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 strongest early indicator of dropout, transfer-out, and family disengagement. A school's absenteeism trend forecasts its enrollment trend 1-3 years out. 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 ÷ 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 +3.5%/year, projecting from 2024's 83 students:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenbush-Middle River Secondary GREENBUSH |
Public | 17.7 | 69 | -8.0% |
| LANCASTER SECONDARY LANCASTER |
Public | 23.3 | 61 | — |
| Stephen-Argyle Central High School STEPHEN |
Public | 18.3 | 80 | -12.1% |
| KITTSON CENTRAL SECONDARY HALLOCK |
Public | 24.0 | 63 | -10.0% |
| BADGER SECONDARY BADGER |
Public | 27.3 | 73 | -5.2% |
| NW REGION INTERDISTRICT COUNCIL NEWFOLDEN |
Public | 17.4 | — | — |
| NORMAN COUNTY EAST SECONDARY TWIN VALLEY |
Public | 91.5 | 51 | -29.2% |
| Bemidji Area Learning Center BEMIDJI |
Public | 106.4 | 54 | -12.9% |