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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

New Beginnings Alternative High School

Cedar Springs, Michigan

NCES ID
260852000585
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

New Beginnings Alternative High School is a public high school in Cedar Springs, Michigan, run by Cedar Springs Public Schools. It enrols 37 students — the 92766th largest of 3,559 public schools in Michigan.

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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

37students

92766th nationally, tied with 83

Free or reduced-price lunch

64.9%percent

35823rd nationally, tied with 109

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.

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.

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Within Cedar Springs Public Schools

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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Cedar Springs High School1,049 students
  2. 2Cedar Trails Elementary School495 students
  3. 3Cedar Springs Middle School489 students
  4. 4Cedar View Elementary School455 students
  5. 5Beach Elementary School446 students
  6. 6Red Hawk Intermediate215 students
  7. 7New Beginnings Alternative High School37 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Michigan median across 3,559 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−90.4%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+9.4%
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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.