Welcome to the Crow River Area Learning Center (CRALC)
We hope you will find the information you need regarding our Alternative Learning Center. CRALC (Crow River ALC) offers learning opportunities during and after the school day as well as two summer school sessions.
The goal of our program is to provide Hutchinson area students increase academic growth and recover missing credits. All courses take place in our Business Computer Lab (Room 2650) and are administered by highly qualified teachers.
Located within:
Hutchinson High School
1200 Roberts Road SW
Hutchinson, MN 55350
P: 320-234-2692
F: 320-587-8217
CRALC Mission Statement
To provide the eligible learner with an alternative to the traditional classroom. To prepare each individual learner to be a productive member of society and a life-long learner.
Program objectives include:
- Individualized instruction
- Small class size
- Credit recovery
Admission Requirements
Admission to the CRALC Program is based on meeting one or more of the following requirements:
- Applicant has performed substantially below the performance level for pupils of the same age in a locally determined achievement test.
- Applicant is behind in satisfactorily completing coursework or obtaining credits for graduation.
- Applicant is pregnant or is a parent.
- Applicant has been assessed as chemically dependent.
- Applicant has been excluded or expelled.
- Applicant has been a victim of physical or sexual abuse.
- Applicant has experienced mental health problems.
- Applicant has been homeless sometime in the past six (6) months before requesting a transfer to an eligible program.
- Applicant has limited English proficiency or speaks English as a second language.
- Applicant is being referred by a school district for enrollment in an eligible program.
- Applicant has been chronically truant or has withdrawn from school.
- Applicant is being treated in a hospital in the seven-county metropolitan area for cancer or other life threatening illness or is the sibling of an eligible pupil who is being currently treated, and resides with the pupil’s family at least 60 miles beyond the outside boundary of the seven-county metropolitan area.
Credit Options
A student may receive .5 credits for each course successfully completed. Students may receive a credit under two options.
The first is through credit recovery. Under this model, a student who has previously taken a course and didn’t receive a passing grade will take a diagnostic test to determine which portion of that course he/she still needs to meet proficiency to achieve credit in the course. Course work based upon this diagnostic test will be created. In addition to course work being created from the diagnostic test, the teacher will also look at what work wasn’t completed in the initial failed course to determine what work still needs to be completed to achieve credit. In the credit recovery model, a grade of “S” (satisfactory) or NC (no credit) will be awarded. An “S” carries no GPA weight.
The second option is for a student to take the entire course again to receive a letter grade of A, B,C, D or F. This letter grade will carry a GPA weight.
Night School
CRALC Night School Schedule 2024-2025
| Time | Room | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00 – 5:30 PM | 2650 | Math | English | Social Studies | Science |
| 3:00 – 5:00 PM | 2640 | Work-Based Learning |
Night School for Math, English, Social Studies, and Science will start at 3:00 and conclude at 5:30. However, if students don’t show by 4:30 and all other students have left by 4:30, night school will conclude at 5:00.
CRALC Night School courses start Monday, September 9, 2024, and conclude for the 2024-2025 school year on Thursday, May 29, 2025
2024-2025 Night School Calendar
- The CRALC Night School offers classes Monday – Thursday nights from 3:00 to 5:30 PM and follows the Hutchinson High School calendar.
- Classes are held in the Hutchinson High School Business Computer Lab (Room 2650)
- Registration is on-going throughout the school year.
- Expect to start classes one day after you have completed registration.
- Expect to complete each course within the school year in which you begin the course.
- Students attending night courses at the CRALC must report to class on time.
- Monday, September 9, 2024, Night School Classes Begin.
- CRALC Night School will NOT meet on days when day school is not in session (e.g., snow days, early releases for weather, holidays, breaks, etc.).
- Thursday, May 29, 2025, Night School Classes End
CRALC will not hold classes on the following dates:
- Tuesday, October 15, 2024 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, October 16, 17 & 18, 2024- Fall Break
- Tuesday, November 5, 2024 – General Elections
- Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, November 27, 28 & 29, 2024- Thanksgiving Break
- Monday, December 23, 2024, through Tuesday, December 31, 2024- Holiday Break
- Wednesday, January 1, 2025 – New Year’s Day
- Monday, January 20, 2025- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Thursday, February 6, 2025- Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Monday, February 17, 2025- President’s Day
- Monday, March 10, 2025, through Friday, March 14, 2025 – Spring Break
- Thursday, April 17, 2025 – No School
- Thursday, April 24, 2025 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
- Monday, May 26, 2025 – Memorial Day
Night School Course Options
Core courses offered to earn credits for gradation are:
Seat Based and/or Independent Study
English
- English 9 Composition
- English 9 Literature
- English 10 Composition
- English 10 Literature
- 11/12 Communication
- 11/12 Composition
- 11/12 Literature
- 11/12 English Elective
Social Studies
- US History 9
- US History 10A
- US History 10B
- Government
- Economics
- Geography
- World History
- Social Electives
Math
- Geometry A
- Geometry B
- Adv. Alg A
- Adv. Alg B
- Pre-Calc
- Math Elective
Science
- Physical Science 9
- Physics
- Cell Biology
- Biology Kingdom
- Chemistry/Physics
- Science Electives
We have limited space for the below courses:
Seat Based and/or Independent Study
Physical Education/Health
- Health
- PE Fitness
- PE Elective
Other Courses
- Fine Arts
- Work Based Learning
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Night School Registration
To register, simply download and complete the forms below and mail to Crow River Area Learning Center:
Crow River Area Learning Center
1200 Roberts Road SW
Hutchinson, MN 55350
Alternatively, it can be faxed to:
Crow River Area Learning Center
320-587-8217
Contact Crow River Area Learning Center
Timothy Singer-Towns, Director
320-234-2692
Email Timothy
Michelle Magnuson, Secretary
320-234-2691
Email Michelle
