Summary:
Veritas Preparatory Charter School (District) is a single-school district in Springfield, Massachusetts, made up of one high school — Veritas Preparatory Charter School — that serves 712 students in grades 5 through 12.
Because Veritas Preparatory Charter School (District) contains only one school, there are no other schools in the area to compare it against; all results describe that one campus. The school ranks 300th of 351 districts statewide (15th percentile, 1 star), and its 2025–2026 school rank is 316th of 353 (10th percentile, 1 star), placing it in roughly the bottom 10–15% of Massachusetts schools. There are a few genuine strengths: 8th grade math is at 43.00% proficient versus 41.67% statewide, 7th grade ELA is at 40.38% versus 39.91%, and 7th grade math is essentially level with the state at 37.50% versus 37.48%. Most other results trail the state, in some cases by wide margins. Biology End of Course is 3.45% proficient versus 37.68% statewide, 10th grade science is 10.11% versus 40.5%, 10th grade math is 19.57% versus 43.73%, 6th grade ELA is 17.48% versus 40.26%, and 10th grade ELA is 23.16% versus 45.48%. No science grade level meets the state rate.
Year-over-year results are mixed. Civics for 8th grade improved from 16.83% to 27.55%, science across all grades rose from 14.65% to 22.61%, and ELA across all grades rose from 24.5% to 27.65%. Math across all grades slipped from 33.25% to 32.19% while the state improved slightly, widening that gap. Notably, the school has a low student–teacher ratio of 9.9 and per-student spending of $20,166 (2020–2021), yet proficiency remains below state in most areas. Free/reduced lunch data is not available, and rank history covers only one year, so poverty levels and longer-term trends cannot be assessed from this data.
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