Public school / High
Smec Alc
Austin, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 270032704978
- District
- Southern Mn Education Consortium
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Smec Alc is a public high school in Austin, Minnesota, run by Southern Mn Education Consortium. It enrols 45 students — the 92092nd 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
45
Teachers
1.0
Students per teacher
45.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
71.1%
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 Southern Mn Education Consortium
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.
- 1Smec Alc45 students
- 2Enrich Alden16 students
- 3Cards Program14 students
- 4First Step Adams13 students
- 5Reset11 students
- 6Success East11 students
- 7Enrich Gm10 students
- 8Success West9 students
- Enrollment−85.0%
- Teachers−95.2%
- Students per teacher+208.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+45.4%
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