Summary:
Innovative Arts Academy Charter School is the sole high school located in Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, serving grades 9-12. Based on the available data, this school is performing significantly below the state average on a variety of academic and demographic measures, suggesting that students may not be receiving the same level of educational opportunities as their peers in other Pennsylvania high schools.
The Innovative Arts Academy Charter School is ranked 646 out of 681 Pennsylvania high schools for the 2024-2025 school year and has a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating that it is one of the lowest-performing schools in the state. The school's proficiency rates on PSSA and Keystone exams are significantly lower than the state averages across all subjects and grade levels, with only 0.6% of students proficient or better in PSSA Math, compared to the state average of 41.7%. Additionally, the school has a relatively high dropout rate of 1.4% and a four-year graduation rate of 87.9%, which is slightly below the state average.
The data also suggests that the Innovative Arts Academy Charter School serves a population with a high level of economic disadvantage, with 70.65% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. The school's relatively low spending per student of $2,822 in the 2022-2023 school year and slightly lower student-teacher ratio of 13.2 in the 2023-2024 school year may also be contributing factors to the school's underperformance. Overall, the data indicates that the Innovative Arts Academy Charter School is a struggling school that is in need of significant improvement to provide its students with the educational opportunities they deserve.
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