Public school / High
Hastings Alternative Center
Hastings, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 271353002754
- District
- Hastings Public School District
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Hastings Alternative Center is a public high school in Hastings, Minnesota, run by Hastings Public School District. It enrols 33 students — the 93109th largest of 2,771 public schools in Minnesota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
33
Teachers
1.0
Students per teacher
33.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
51.5%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Hastings Public School District
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Hastings High School1,353 students
- 2Hastings Middle School1,210 students
- 3Christa Mcauliffe Elementary472 students
- 4Kennedy Elementary450 students
- 5Pinecrest Elementary450 students
- 6Hastings Early Child Special Ed.98 students
- 7Hoa High School45 students
- 8Hastings Alternative Center33 students
- Enrollment−89.0%
- Teachers−95.2%
- Students per teacher+126.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+5.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory