I'm sorry for the stupid question but I didn't really understand your qualifier - These are the actual expected student enrollment numbers in 2025? Seriously?
So are the numbers on the MSHSL site after free and reduced is factored in?
The numbers are Oct headcount’s from 2024-25 if they came from MDE
Wild. A lot has changed since my HS days 15+ years ago.
Correct. The numbers in the link in the very first post in this thread from the MSHSL site are adjusted for free and reduced lunch.
Albert Lea HS enrollment does include grade 8.
That may be, but that isn't how the high school league determines enrollment. They only count 9-12. There are small districts where the school is K-12 but that doesn't matter for this. I literally showed the formula, which was within 6 students.Albert Lea HS enrollment does include grade 8.
Trust me, there is no way ALHS has an actual enrollment of nearly 1200 for 9-12.
I can admit when I'm wrong. I think you're right - the DoE numbers must be 8-12 because I did the math wrong. Based on this, it's somewhere just under 1050 in 9-12.
I Googled it. Two reports, one says 1229 for the 5 grades and the other 1218 for grades 8-12.
Yes, and so if you do the math backwards, it's just under 1050 for real enrollment for 9-12.
First bold: that wouldn't bother me personally, not that my feelings matter a hill of beans (they don't). My premise from the start has been that the true underlying purpose of 6A was to extract those "mega" schools away from all the rest. It's a shame, then, that 16 or so schools in the bottom half of that division that look nothing at all like those upper/"mega" schools had to be dragged up with them. Is my main point.
Why would that be a bad thing, if we're talking metro schools in the upper half of 5A?
Early 2000's is 20 years ago. Maybe it doesn't feel that way, but it is.
How are you defining that someone "rigged" the system, in this scenario?
1. I know. I figured someone would bring that up. 20 years is a lifetime.
Correct.
Yeah. That always happens though. Jefferson, Kennedy were in the same conference as Eden prairie just 14 years ago
It’s hard to legislate winning and losing. Can’t do one without the other. So the fairest debates are about:
So when coon rapids was supposed to be 6a a few years back…they appealed and said they couldn’t compete.
Lakeville North and South are a couple of the better programs in 6A - South won the Prep Bowl in 2021 and was named 2020 Covid State Champions, North won the Prep Bowl in 2018.
This past season there were a lot of either 6-0 or 7-0 teams in 5A, I can't remember which week it was exactly but I just remember being amazed how many good teams at the top of 5A there were. Elk River, Armstrong, some of the Outstate teams.
Because that’s just the vernacular name for it
I think that last year the following teams would’ve been top 20 in 6a:
I actually think this would be better for the sport. It spreads out the winning and losing and allows for some potential upsets. Could add to the group and make Class 6A 48 teams.
You don’t even need to change it for playoffs
Yeah, it would be interesting. 3 of the 4 teams I thought of that are 'smaller' 6A schools are the Lakeville's and East Ridge. Lakeville obviously has North and South and East Ridge is part of South Washington ISD with Woodbury & Park.
Albert Lea has gone through many changes according to an article that I had read. Good paying jobs are no longer available like they use to be due to management changes and closures. What I don't get though, they have interstate 90 and 35 running through the end of town. You think it would be good for growth of the community. Instead, the article continues to say that a meeting was being set up to deal with the decreased of students at the schools over the years.
