PROMISE College and Career Academy
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 19 points.
About PROMISE College and Career Academy
PROMISE College and Career Academy, a minimally staffed 9-12 campus in Brockton, Massachusetts, overseen by Brockton, works with 138 students, covering grades 9 through 11. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 777 students each, so PROMISE College and Career Academy sits 82% below that benchmark.
PROMISE College and Career Academy is one of 24 schools operated by Brockton, a district that enrolls 15,280 students overall.
In terms of who attends, PROMISE College and Career Academy logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 22% Hispanic, 12% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, The school currently runs with 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.
In the area at large, census data for Plymouth County shows median household income runs about $114,201, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. PROMISE College and Career Academy is one of 141 public schools in Plymouth County (combined enrollment of about 76,427 students).
Brockton Therapeutic Day School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around PROMISE College and Career Academy.
The school occupies a suburban site.
Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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