Summary:
There is only one elementary school in the data set, Ad Prima Charter School, which serves grades K-8 and is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school has faced declining performance in recent years, with a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger and a steadily worsening statewide ranking, now placing it in the bottom 20% of Pennsylvania elementary schools.
Academically, Ad Prima Charter School struggles, with proficiency rates on PSSA tests consistently below the state averages in both Math and English Language Arts across all grades. For example, in 2023-2024, the school's Math proficiency rates ranged from 12.3% to 35%, compared to the state averages of 28.6% to 51.4%. The school's ELA proficiency rates were also low, ranging from 26.5% to 60%, compared to the state averages of 51.5% to 55.8%. Science proficiency was more mixed, with 4th-grade students performing better than the state average but 8th-grade students performing significantly worse.
Despite a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.5, the high-poverty student population, with 99.66% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, and the school's high per-student spending of $17,933, the data suggests that Ad Prima Charter School is facing significant challenges in providing a high-quality education to its students. The declining performance and low academic proficiency rates indicate that more support and intervention may be needed to improve student outcomes at this school.
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