Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M)
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NHSAS 2024-25 . % Above ProficientWhat this means: On the NHSAS, New Hampshire's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Hampshire schools, those numbers are about 55 and 43.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 59% typical for New Hampshire schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
About Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M)
Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) is one of the rural-scale intermediate schools in Loudon, New Hampshire, one of the schools within Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School, with 52 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Hampshire's public schools average about 379 students each, so Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) sits 86% leaner than that benchmark.
Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 76 students. Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest is composed of 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. Compared to Merrimack County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.1:1 average. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Merrimack County (around 25%), the school's rate is south of typical.
With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 58.6%; actual is 19.6%, a gap of -39.0 points.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Merrimack County put median household earnings sit near $97,004, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Merrimack County runs 61 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students), of which Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) is one.
Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (H) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area. Benjamin Franklin Academy Chartered Public School (M) is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
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