North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus

North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus is a secondary school of cozy scale in FOREST LAKE, Minnesota, one of the schools within NORTH LAKES ACADEMY, caters to 245 students in grades 7 through 12. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in Minnesota, which averages around 371 students.

Across the 3 schools in NORTH LAKES ACADEMY (613 students total), North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest is composed of 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 26%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus is in the bottom 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.9%; North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus posts 23.8%, -21.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household income runs about $115,345, about 49% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 103 public schools (combined enrollment of about 46,313 students), North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Forest Lake Area Community School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. As a public charter, North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. North Lakes Academy 7-12 Campus's enrollment has rose 14% since 2018, when it stood at 215 (now 245). The White share of enrollment edged down from 91% to 82% over that span.

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