+10%
Median federal debt at exit
Median federal debt at exit at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program rose 10% between 2017 and 2020 ($12.0k → $13.2k).
New York · Public · Predominantly certificates
Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
Lockport, New York. 0 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.
ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS
What the data flags at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
Short-arc shifts (recent 3-year window), peer outliers, earnings trend breaks, completion drops, enrollment cliffs, and debt-to-earnings warnings — surfaced deterministically from the federal record. Multi-decade shifts are reported separately in the Long Arc section, since 25-year tuition drift isn't really an anomaly.
+267%
First-year retention
First-year retention at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program rose 267% between 2019 and 2022 (27.3% → 100.0%).
+173%
Undergraduate enrollment
Undergraduate enrollment at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program rose 173% between 2021 and 2024 (11 → 30).
-100%
3-year cohort default rate
3-year cohort default rate at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (2.5% → 0.0%).
SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT
The numbers, vs. New York
Each tile compares this institution to the New York median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.
—+47% · 6→8y
New York median $48,917$36,892
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry66.7%+1% · '07→'09
New York median 64.2%$9,500+42% · '03→'20
At program completion0
latest IPEDS—+50% · '07→'22
first-time, full-time—
latest cohort—
annualSECTION 02 · EARNINGS HORIZONS
How earnings spread, 4 to 10 years after entry
Treasury tax-record earnings for federally aided students who first enrolled at this institution. Each point is a horizon from the most-recent vintage. Single median per horizon (no p25/p75 publishing).
Earnings widen with time post-entry. Selection: federal-aid recipients only — not all graduates.Methodology →
SECTION 04 · LONG ARC
Ten-plus year arc
Federally available history. Coverage varies by metric — IPEDS publishes some series only after 2009 and others only before.
Undergraduate enrollment.
150%-time completion rate.
Median federal student debt at exit.
+50%
Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · retention rose
66.7% → 100.0%
+42%
Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · median debt rose
$9,295 → $13,198
-100%
Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · cohort default rate fell
33.3% → 0.0%
+22%
Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program · pell share rose
68.0% → 82.9%
SECTION 05 · PROGRAMS
Ranked by 5-year earnings
Each row is one (CIP × credential) program reported by the institution in College Scorecard's Field-of-Study data. Cohort floor is 30 students; below this, federal data is suppressed.
SECTION 06 · BY CIP FAMILY
1 programs with earnings, grouped
Programs are grouped by 2-digit CIP family. Programs without reported earnings are hidden to keep the list focused.
HEALTH PROFESSIONS · CIP 51
FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION
Estimate the financial outcome at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program
Pick a program. Cost from Scorecard net price by family income; earnings from Treasury 5-year-post-completion median, projected forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve. The selection-bias toggle applies the Dale-Krueger shrinkage. Outcomes illustration, not a forecast — see methodology.
Shrinks the earnings premium toward the matched-applicant mean. STEM <15%, business ~40%, arts & education ~60%.
EARNINGS SUPPRESSED
Federal privacy rules suppressed earnings for Practical Nursing, Vocational Nursing and Nursing Assistants · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program(cohort below 30 students). The calculator can’t produce a number we’d stand behind, so we don’t.
Outcomes illustration · not a forecast. Projects observed Scorecard earnings forward with a Mincer age-earnings curve under your assumptions. See methodology for the math.
SECTION 07 · SIMILAR INSTITUTIONS
Same sector and degree mix in New York
Picked by Carnegie sector × predominant credential level. These are not rankings — just nearest-neighbour surfaces for comparison.
CAUSAL DISCIPLINE
“Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program graduates earn $X” — not “Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program makes you earn $X”
Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Orleans Niagara BOCES-Practical Nursing Program caused. Selection effects (who admits, who enrolls, who completes) are real. We publish federal data with strict descriptive phrasing — and link the methodology where you can read about the limitations directly.