The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch

Located at 419 South Broadway 2nd Floor, in Salem, New Hampshire, The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch is a moderately sized elementary-level community that enrolls 286 students (grades K through 8), part of The Birches Academy of Academics & Art A Public Charter Sch.

Operationally, The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch answers to The Birches Academy of Academics & Art A Public Charter Sch, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (81%); the rest breaks down as 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 91%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 8% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 50.2%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Rockingham County shows median household earnings sit near $118,331, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch is one of 99 public schools in Rockingham County (combined enrollment of about 41,753 students).

The closest other public school is William T. Barron Elementary School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 49.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. The Birches Academy of Academics - Art A Public Charter Sch's enrollment has rose 32% since 2018, when it stood at 217 (now 286). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 86% to 81%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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