Public school / Other
Northern Lights Academy
Cloquet, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 270044205073
- School type
- Special education
- Title I
- Not designated
Northern Lights Academy is a public other school in Cloquet, Minnesota, run by Northern Lights Academy Cooperative. It enrols 16 students — the 94764th 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
16
Teachers
3.0
Students per teacher
5.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
75.0%
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 Northern Lights Academy Cooperative
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.
- 1Northern Lights Academy16 students
- 2Nla-Carlton14 students
- 3Northern Lights Academy Cooperative5 students
- Enrollment−94.7%
- Teachers−85.7%
- Students per teacher−63.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+53.4%
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