Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School
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
Test scores
MCAS 2022-23 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 46 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2018, while math scores are up about 1 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 14.0% | 10.0% |
| 2021-22 | 18.0% | 4.0% |
| 2020-21 | 22.0% | 3.0% |
| 2018-19 | 23.0% | 9.0% |
5-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2022-23Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-23 | 261 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 263 | 21 | 12.5:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 270 | 35 | 7.7:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 35 | 9.0:1 | N/A |
About Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School
Among the schools in Chicopee, Massachusetts, is Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School, a public school.
Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School is administered by Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School (District).
County data help place the school in context: in Hampden County, median household income is about $71,306, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School is among the 168 public schools in Hampden County.
Bowe is the closest public school, about 0.4 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.
NCES describes the area around Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School is a public charter school.
Federal counts put enrollment at 270 in 2017-18 and 261 in 2022-23, a 3% decrease. The percentage of Black students increased from 4% to 10% between 2017-18 and 2022-23.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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