Summary:
ZIP code 01970 (Salem, MA) contains four high schools serving grades 6 through 12, with a combined enrollment of 1,491 students: Salem High (9–12, 952 students), Salem Academy Charter School (6–12, 480 students), New Liberty Innovation School (9–12, 36 students), and Salem Prep High School (8–12, 23 students). The two largest schools enroll about 96% of all students, while the two smallest serve only 59 combined.
Salem Academy Charter School posts the strongest completion outcomes: a 95.6% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate, with the best single-year rank at 145 of 349 in 2024–2025 before slipping to 192 of 353 in 2025–2026. Its achievement is uneven — above state in 10th-grade ELA (47.83% vs. 45.48%) and 7th-grade ELA (56.00% vs. 39.91%), but well below in 10th-grade Math (28.99% vs. 43.73%). Salem High graduates 89.5% with a 4.4% dropout rate, both better than the Salem district, and its Biology End-of-Course proficiency of 42.33% beats district and state, though 10th-grade ELA, Math, and Science trail state levels. New Liberty Innovation School has the most difficult profile: 69.2% graduation, 23.1% dropout, an 8th-percentile rank, and 9.09% 10th-grade math proficiency. Salem Prep High School graduates 71.4% with 0.0% dropout but has no test or rank data.
Per-student spending ranges from $19,262 at Charter to $44,411 at Salem Prep, with New Liberty at $28,322; both higher spenders have graduation rates below the district average, so spending does not track outcomes simply here. Student-teacher ratios run from 8.0 at New Liberty to 11.7 at Salem Prep and show no clear relationship with results either. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all four schools, Salem Prep has no achievement data, and New Liberty has just one year of rank history, so the smallest schools' rates can swing widely.
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