High · Massachusetts
Salem Academy Charter School
CharterFree meals for allSalem Academy Charter School, a public high school in Salem, Massachusetts: grades 6–12, 480 students, 11.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Salem Academy Charter.
Size and class size
Compared with high 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
- 480
- Teachers (FTE)
- 43.5
- Students per teacher
- 11.0
- Grades
- 6–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 54% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 11.2 · 380 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 75% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 66% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 660 · 383 schools compared
Larger than 54% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 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%46%proficient
+6.5 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 79% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 33% · 95 high schools compared
221 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Massachusetts: 41%39%proficient
+13.1 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 79% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 24% · 95 high schools compared
220 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
- High · Grades 6–12
- Type
- Charter school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Salem Academy Charter
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Salem Academy Charter.
Location
- Address
- 45 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970
- Phone
- (978)744-2105
- City or town
- Salem
- County
- Essex County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
New Liberty Innovation SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 36 | 8.1 |
Salem Prep High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 23 | 11.8 |
Salem HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 952 | 9.8 |
| 9–12 | 861 | 10.7 | |
| 9–12 | 706 | 11.7 | |
Beverly HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,213 | 12.2 |
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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