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Collegiate Charter School of Lowell
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 6% |
| Grade 1 | 100 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 115 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 116 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 7% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 112 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 114 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 108 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 84 | 7% |
| Grade 10 | 80 | 7% |
| Grade 11 | 67 | 6% |
| Grade 12 | 50 | 4% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 30% smaller than its 8th grade class (108).
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 10 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.6% | 19.5% |
| 2023-24 | 26.6% | 22.8% |
| 2022-23 | 26.8% | 21.1% |
| 2021-22 | 33.6% | 30.7% |
| 2020-21 | 44.5% | 22.8% |
| 2018-19 | 50.0% | 41.0% |
| 2017-18 | 36.0% | 28.0% |
| 2016-17 | 38.0% | 29.0% |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,212 | 113.7 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 1,211 | 81.2 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 1,203 | 55 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 1,015 | 47 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 759 | 40 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 499 | 28 | 17.8:1 | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students up 60% (759 to 1,212); teachers up 184% (40 to 113.7).
About Collegiate Charter School of Lowell
Collegiate Charter School of Lowell is a public combined-grade school in Lowell, Massachusetts. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 12, with 1,212 students enrolled. An average school in this group (combined schools in Massachusetts) has about 870 students.
In federal data, the district for Collegiate Charter School of Lowell is the school itself.
At Collegiate Charter School of Lowell, the largest share of students is Hispanic, at 28%. The remaining shares are 24% Asian, 23% White, 19% Black, and 4% multiracial. Middlesex County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 77% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 113.7 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 10.7:1. That matches the 10.1:1 average for combined schools in Massachusetts fairly closely.
According to the American Community Survey, in Middlesex County, the median household income is $130,847, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Collegiate Charter School of Lowell is one of 386 public schools in the county.
The school nearest to Collegiate Charter School of Lowell is Pawtucketville Memorial, at a distance of about 0.9 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large). As a charter school, Collegiate Charter School of Lowell is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
Federal data show a 19% enrollment gain, from 1,015 in 2020-21 to 1,212 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 21.6:1 to 10.7:1.
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