Other · Massachusetts
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School
CharterFree meals for allProspect Hill Academy Charter School, a public other school in Cambridge, Massachusetts: grades pre-k–12, 890 students, 10.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Prospect Hill Academy Charter.
Size and class size
Compared with schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 890
- Teachers (FTE)
- 84.3
- Students per teacher
- 10.6
- Grades
- Pre-K–12
- Other
More students per teacher than 50% of schools in Massachusetts
Median 10.5 · 34 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 60% of schools in the US
Median 12.7 · 3,627 schools compared
Larger than 59% of schools in Massachusetts
Median 626 · 34 schools compared
Larger than 85% of schools in the US
Median 207 · 3,982 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Massachusetts's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Massachusetts: 42%28%proficient
+1.6 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 70% of schools in Massachusetts
Median 26% · 30 schools compared
397 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Massachusetts: 41%19%proficient
+4.4 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 50% of schools in Massachusetts
Median 19% · 30 schools compared
395 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Other · Grades Pre-K–12
- Type
- Charter school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Midsize city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Prospect Hill Academy Charter.
Location
- Address
- 50 Essex Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Phone
- (617)284-7800
- City or town
- Cambridge
- County
- Middlesex County
Nearby schools
The closest public schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Match Charter Public SchoolCharterFree meals for all | Pre-K–12 | 1,189 | 10.2 | 22% | 23% |
Horace Mann School for the Deaf Hard of HearingSpecial education | Pre-K–12 | 73 | 2.0 | 3.9% | 3.9% |
Melvin H. King South End AcademyFree meals for all | 1–12 | 125 | 3.3 | 3.0% | 0.0% |
Devens SchoolFree meals for all | K–12 | 38 | 3.7 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Pioneer Charter School of ScienceCharterFree meals for all | K–12 | 795 | 11.0 | 62% | 69% |
Brooke Charter SchoolCharterFree meals for all | K–12 | 2,216 | 12.4 | 65% | 70% |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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