Summary:
The Battle Creek Area Learning Center, a public charter high school serving grades 9-12 in the Battle Creek Area Learning Center district in Michigan, is the sole high school in the data set. With a total enrollment of 179 students, the school has faced significant challenges, including consistently low academic performance, high levels of economic disadvantage, and concerning chronic absenteeism rates.
Academically, the school has struggled, with proficiency rates well below the state averages in core subjects like science, social studies, and reading/writing. In the 2024-2025 school year, only 5.66% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in M-Step/Science, compared to the state average of 34.9%, and only 9.43% were proficient or better in M-Step/Social Studies, compared to the state average of 42.1%. The school's four-year graduation rate of 82.8% is also below the state average, and its dropout rate of 7.6% is higher than the state average.
Socioeconomic factors appear to play a significant role in the school's challenges, with 90.5% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage. The school's per-student spending of $11,479 and a student-teacher ratio of 19.3 suggest that the school may need additional resources and support to address the needs of its student population. Despite these challenges, the school's ranking has improved slightly over the years, going from 729 out of 824 in 2017-2018 to 647 out of 743 in 2023-2024, suggesting that the school may be making progress, albeit at a slow pace.
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