Summary:
Making Community Connections Charter School includes one high school in the Keene, New Hampshire area: Making Community Connections Charter School - Monadnock, serving grades 9–12 with about 80 students. Its small size and 14.2-to-1 student-teacher ratio may allow for more individualized attention, while approximately 32.5% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Because there is only one high school in the Making Community Connections Charter School district, there are no nearby schools in this list for direct comparison.
The school’s biggest concerns are graduation and student retention. The reported graduation rate is 13.3%, far below New Hampshire’s 87.0% average, while the dropout rate is 40.0%, compared with 2.3% statewide. These figures come from a small school population and should be reviewed alongside the number of students in the graduating cohort, transfers, attendance, and reasons students leave. Even with those limitations, the results indicate that helping students remain enrolled, earn credits, and graduate should be the school’s highest priority. The school received a one-star rating and ranked 66th out of 89 in the available school ranking information.
Academic results are mixed. Reading performance is below the state average: 40% of students were proficient in all-grades reading compared with 55% statewide, and 40% were proficient in 11th-grade SAT reading compared with 62%. Science is a relative strength, with 40% proficiency in all grades compared with 38% statewide and 40% among 11th graders, matching the state. Parents may want to ask about reading support, attendance and credit recovery, graduation pathways, and how the school supports students at risk of dropping out. The small enrollment also means that a few students can significantly change reported percentages from year to year.
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