Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School

Located at 1066 Front St., in Manchester, New Hampshire, Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School is an one-room-style senior high that instructs 96 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies. Enrollment runs roughly 81% smaller than the state mean of about 496.

Operationally, Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School answers to Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School reports that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School shows 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.2:1 average. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Hillsborough County (around 26%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.6%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Hillsborough County's 127 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,974 students), Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Webster School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 34.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site. Spark Academy of Advanced Technologies Charter School 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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