Youth Center School
Kalamazoo · MI · Kalamazoo RESA · Public · K-12 combined
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WoodsEdge Learning Center → Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Youth Center School → The Epic Center → Lets Talk About It Girls Home → Lets Talk About It Home for Young Men → Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center → Outlook Academy → Boys To Men Group Home →At a glance
- AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools
- SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 33% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
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How Youth Center School compares for families
What families should know about Youth Center School.
- ▸ 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: WoodsEdge Learning Center, Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Youth Center School, The Epic Center and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 33% 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.
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 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: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability.
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2021 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 +8.4%/year, projecting from 2024's 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WoodsEdge Learning Center PORTAGE |
Public | 5.0 | 61 | +15.1% |
| Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Youth Center School KALAMAZOO |
Public | 0.0 | — | — |
| The Epic Center KALAMAZOO |
Public | 1.5 | — | — |
| Lets Talk About It Girls Home KALAMAZOO |
Public | 1.9 | — | — |
| Lets Talk About It Home for Young Men KALAMAZOO |
Public | 1.9 | — | — |
| Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center KALAMAZOO |
Public | 2.0 | — | — |
| Outlook Academy ALLEGAN |
Public · charter | 20.9 | 33 | — |
| Boys To Men Group Home KALAMAZOO |
Public | 5.5 | — | — |
At a glance
JSON · Using this page with an AI assistantYouth Center School is a public high school in Kalamazoo, MI, enrolling 51 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
33 students took the SAT or ACT in the most recent federal count, a participation level above 33% of U.S. high schools.
5% of its students were chronically absent in 2020.
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics (enrollment), the federal Civil Rights Data Collection and EDFacts, state education agencies where named, and the school's own published documents where named.
Questions families ask
How many students attend Youth Center School? Youth Center School is a public high school in Kalamazoo, MI, enrolling 51 students in grades 9-12 in 2024.
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