Virginia · Private for-profit · Predominantly certificates

Luckes Beauty Academy LLC

Newport News, Virginia. 21 undergraduate students. 1 programs in the federal Field-of-Study dataset.

ANOMALY ENGINE · NOTABLE SIGNALS

What the data flags at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC

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.

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING WORSE-100%

First-year retention

First-year retention at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (60.0% → 0.0%).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER-100%

3-year cohort default rate

3-year cohort default rate at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC fell 100% between 2021 and 2024 (19.0% → 0.0%).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING WORSE-39%

Undergraduate enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC fell 39% between 2021 and 2024 (28 → 17).

LONG-ARC SHIFT · TRENDING BETTER-23%

Median federal debt at exit

Median federal debt at exit at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC fell 23% between 2015 and 2018 ($15.0k → $11.5k).

SECTION 01 · OUTCOMES SNAPSHOT

The numbers, vs. Virginia

Each tile compares this institution to the Virginia median for the same metric. Sub-line shows the comparison value, not an interpretation. Sparklines trace the federally available history.

MEDIAN EARNINGS · 10Y
Virginia median $44,813
MEDIAN EARNINGS · 6Y
$24,463
Treasury earnings · 6y post-entry
COMPLETION · 150%
57.1%
Virginia median 50.7%
MEDIAN FEDERAL DEBT
$9,500-23% · '15→'18
At program completion
UNDERGRAD ENROLLMENT
21-51% · '14→'24
latest IPEDS
RETENTION
33.3%-100% · '14→'24
first-time, full-time
ADMISSION RATE
latest cohort
IN-STATE TUITION
annual
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.

UNDERGRAD · 2014202417
391420142024
Undergraduate enrollment.IPEDS EF
MEDIAN DEBT · 20152018$11,479
$14,952$9,83320152018
Median federal student debt at exit.SCORECARD
RETENTION · 20142024-100%

Luckes Beauty Academy LLC · retention fell

50.0% → 0.0%

MEDIAN DEBT · 20152018-23%

Luckes Beauty Academy LLC · median debt fell

$14,952 → $11,479

COHORT DEFAULT RATE · 20172024-100%

Luckes Beauty Academy LLC · cohort default rate fell

37.5% → 0.0%

PELL SHARE · 20142024+69%

Luckes Beauty Academy LLC · pell share rose

42.9% → 72.4%

FINANCIAL OUTCOME · ILLUSTRATION

Estimate the financial outcome at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC

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 Cosmetology and Related Personal Grooming Services · Undergraduate Certificate or Diploma at Luckes Beauty Academy LLC(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.

CAUSAL DISCIPLINE

Luckes Beauty Academy LLC graduates earn $X” — not “Luckes Beauty Academy LLC makes you earn $X”

Median earnings describe what cohorts earned. They do not describe what attending Luckes Beauty Academy LLC 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.

Methodology →