Summary:
High Schools located in Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public (District) consist of one public charter school, Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School, serving grades 7–12 in South Hadley, Massachusetts, with 397 students. Because this is a single-school district, district-level figures are also the school’s figures.
Academically, the school is mixed. Its strongest results are in the upper grades: 10th-grade ELA was 47.37% proficient vs. 45.48% for the state, 10th-grade Science was 41.46% vs. 40.50%, and 8th-grade Civics was 40.00% vs. 39.77%. The school also has a 94.2% graduation rate, a 4.3% dropout rate, and a favorable 9.3 student-to-teacher ratio. Math is the largest weakness: Math All Grades was 23.88% vs. 41.11% state, and 8th-grade Math was 18.46% vs. 41.67% state. Science All Grades was 28.79% vs. 40.98%, and ELA All Grades was 36.36% vs. 40.03%. Year-over-year, Math All Grades improved from 15.60% to 23.88%, and 8th-grade Civics rose from 25.37% to 40.00%.
The ranking picture is inconsistent. The district summary shows 213 of 351, 39th percentile, 2 stars, while the school’s 2025–2026 rank history shows 164 of 353, 54th percentile, 3 stars; prior years were 171 of 348 (51st percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 and 199 of 349 (43rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025. Spending per student was $17,973 in 2020–2021, and free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so economic context is missing. Overall, families should see a school with strong 10th-grade ELA and Science outcomes, a high graduation rate, and recent gains in math and civics, but meaningful middle-school math and science gaps relative to the state.
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