Polaris Charter School

Polaris Charter School is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in Manchester, New Hampshire, part of Polaris Charter School, enrolling 119 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 249 students per school, that is 52% below typical.

Polaris Charter School is the operating authority for Polaris Charter School, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Polaris Charter School logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Polaris Charter School records 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Polaris Charter School higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Polaris Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 44.2%, a residual of -5.8 points.

In the area at large, Hillsborough County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,545 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Polaris Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Gossler Park School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Polaris Charter School. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Polaris Charter School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 24.7%.

The school occupies a high-density site. Polaris Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 11%: 107 students in 2018 compared to 119 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 64% across the same window.

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