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Austin, Minnesota - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ operates 1 public schools serving 34 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Mower County.
The funding mix is 17.0% local, 82.0% state, and 1.0% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
and 92.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 52.5% White, 20.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Oakland Education Center, enrolling 40 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Oakland Education Center accounts for 100.0% of all Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ a distant remainder — means Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 79.4% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Areas above 75% eligibility — including this one — receive concentration grants on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ chronic absenteeism rate is 92.5% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Comparisons are relative to Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ?
Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 34 students.
What is the demographic composition of Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ?
Austin Albert Lea Area Special Educ students are 52.5% White, 20.0% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% African American, 5.0% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.