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White Bear Lake, Minnesota - 13 schools
845
Total Enrollment
13
Schools
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Per-Pupil Spending
Combined, High
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Northeast Metro 916 operates 13 public schools serving 845 students, placing it among the smaller districts in Minnesota. The school portfolio breaks down into 6 combined, 4 high, 3 elementary schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Ramsey County.
The funding mix is 40.0% local, 58.4% state, and 1.6% 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 67.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 43.6% White, 22.5% African American, 13.7% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is 916 Mahtomedi Academy, with a diversity index of 77.3/100.
Its largest campus is Metro Heights Academy, enrolling 198 students (24% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Project Return, at 2 students, a 99x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Metro Heights Academy accounts for 23.4% of all Northeast Metro 916 student enrollment
That concentration means Northeast Metro 916-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Northeast Metro 916 school enrollment varies 99× across entities
Northeast Metro 916 school enrollment ranges from 2 students (lowest) to 198 students (highest), a spread of 196 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Northeast Metro 916 has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 53.6% 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 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.
Northeast Metro 916 chronic absenteeism rate is 67.9% — 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.
Northeast Metro 916 has 13 schools, including 4 high, 6 combined, 3 elementary. Total enrollment is 845 students.
What is the demographic composition of Northeast Metro 916?
Northeast Metro 916 students are 43.6% White, 22.5% African American, 13.7% Hispanic or Latino, 8.9% Asian, averaged across 13 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.