Park City Prep Charter School District

Park City Prep Charter School District contains just one school, Park City Prep Charter School, a middle school serving grades 4 through 8 in Bridgeport, CT, with 434 students.

Because this is the only school in the district, its results define the district. Park City Prep is a school of contrasts: it has notable bright spots in its upper grades, but overall it trails the state, especially in math. In 2025-2026, 7th graders beat the state in both English language arts (59% vs. 52.2%) and math (47.4% vs. 44.1%), while 8th graders also exceeded the state in ELA (56.8% vs. 51.1%). However, lower grades struggle, with 6th grade proficiency at just 28.9% in ELA and 17.8% in math, both far below state averages. Averaged across all grades, the school is about 5.5 points behind the state in ELA but a much larger 15.5 points behind in math, making math the school's biggest academic challenge. Science results, only available for 5th grade, improved by nearly 10 points to 35.5% but remain 17.4 points below the state.

The school's overall ranking reflects this mixed picture. At the school level, it ranks 141 out of 258 Connecticut schools (45th percentile, 2 stars), which is near the middle. But at the district level, it ranks 127 out of 153 districts (17th percentile, 1 star), because districts and schools are compared differently. Over the past three years, its percentile ranking has been stable, between the 44th and 47th. On a positive note, chronic absenteeism is 14.2%, better than the state's 16.4%, despite nearly 70% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. A high student-teacher ratio of 20.6 may partly explain why younger grades and math remain challenging, but the strong performance of the 7th and 8th grade cohorts shows the school can be effective with older students.