WAY Niles
NILES · MI · Niles Community Schools · Public · K-12 combined
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WAY Watervliet High School → Eau Claire High School → Bridge Academy of Southwest Michigan → Blossomland Learning Center → River Valley MiddleHigh School → Lighthouse Education Center → Covert High School → WoodsEdge Learning Center →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 24% (Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How WAY Niles compares for families
What families should know about WAY Niles.
- ▸ LocallyMI sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: WAY Watervliet High School, Eau Claire High School, Bridge Academy of Southwest Michigan and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: 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 4% 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.
🏛️ 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 Michigan-Ann Arbor
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 $13,138/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 -12.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WAY Watervliet High School WATERVLIET |
Public | 25.2 | 90 | -3.2% |
| Eau Claire High School EAU CLAIRE |
Public | 11.7 | 180 | -10.9% |
| Bridge Academy of Southwest Michigan BENTON HARBOR |
Public · charter | 23.4 | 112 | +55.6% |
| Blossomland Learning Center BERRIEN SPRINGS |
Public | 10.7 | 25 | — |
| River Valley MiddleHigh School THREE OAKS |
Public | 19.6 | 159 | -1.2% |
| Lighthouse Education Center SAINT JOSEPH |
Public | 19.4 | 35 | — |
| Covert High School COVERT |
Public | 32.2 | 101 | +9.8% |
| WoodsEdge Learning Center PORTAGE |
Public | 44.1 | 61 | +15.1% |