Gathering Waters Charter School (E)

Gathering Waters Charter School (E) operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Keene, New Hampshire, part of Gathering Waters Charter School. Current enrollment sits at 219 students spanning grades K through 8.

Gathering Waters Charter School (E) is one of 2 schools operated by Gathering Waters Charter School, a district that teaches 286 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gathering Waters Charter School (E) logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% Asian, 4% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Gathering Waters Charter School (E) tighter than the state norm the norm. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gathering Waters Charter School (E) is in the bottom 10% of New Hampshire public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.9%; Gathering Waters Charter School (E) posts 30.9%, -17.0 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Cheshire County put median household income runs about $83,329, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Gathering Waters Charter School (E) is one of 41 public schools in Cheshire County (combined enrollment of about 8,365 students).

Gathering Waters Charter School (H) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gathering Waters Charter School (E). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gathering Waters Charter School (E) at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 47.8%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. Gathering Waters Charter School (E) operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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