Public school / High
West Heights Alc
West Saint Paul, Minnesota
- NCES ID
- 270002604250
- District
- Intermediate School District 917
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
West Heights Alc is a public high school in West Saint Paul, Minnesota, run by Intermediate School District 917. It enrols 74 students — the 89578th 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
74
Teachers
6.0
Students per teacher
12.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
63.5%
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 Intermediate School District 917
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.
- 1Dakota Cty. Alc206 students
- 2917 Sun93 students
- 3917 Transitional Education Serv Alt82 students
- 4West Heights Alc74 students
- 5917 Intra-Dakota Educational Alt43 students
- 6Tea40 students
- 7917 Paces36 students
- 8Deaf/Hard of Hearing27 students
- Enrollment−75.4%
- Teachers−71.4%
- Students per teacher−15.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+29.9%
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