Summary:
Baystate Academy Charter Public School is the only school in Baystate Academy Charter Public School (District), a single-school charter district in Springfield, MA serving grades 6–12 with 388 students, and it ranks 345 of 351 districts — the bottom 5% of Massachusetts.
Academic results sit far below state levels in every subject and grade. Overall proficiency is 9.77% in English Language Arts, 11.93% in math and 11.67% in science, against state rates near 40% — roughly a quarter to a third of state levels, with gaps of about 29–30 points. The weakest results are 7th grade math (1.72% proficient, about 4.6% of the state rate) and 10th grade science (4%). The brightest spots are 8th grade math (21.31%, just over half the state rate), 8th grade ELA (16.67%) and 8th grade civics (15.25%). Math proficiency jumps twelve-fold from 7th to 8th grade, the largest swing in the data.
There is a real split between proficiency and completion. The graduation rate is 86.0% with a 4.7% dropout rate — nearly all students finish, even though few reach the proficiency bar. The school is well resourced: a 6.7:1 student–teacher ratio (implying roughly 55–60 staff) and $17,162 per pupil spending, a figure from 2020-21. Improvement is genuine — ELA rose 1.05 points, math 2.68 and civics 3.93 while state averages stayed flat or fell, narrowing gaps by roughly 2–3 points — but closing a 29-point gap at that pace means years of work. Free/reduced lunch is not reported, and science has not budged.
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