[2] Money generated from casinos was used to fund the school's establishment.
[4] Northern Michigan University began chartering the school in 1995.
By then it had won the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program's award one time.
[7] The school collected data on how students learned material related to the State of Michigan's performance standards.
[8] Circa 2004 the percentage of students who were classified as economically disadvantaged was almost 60.