Summary:
Catalyst Academy Charter School is the sole elementary school serving grades K-4 in the Catalyst Academy Charter School district located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With a total enrollment of 258 students, the school faces significant academic challenges, as evidenced by its students' substantially lower proficiency rates on state assessments compared to the state averages.
Catalyst Academy Charter School's proficiency rates on the PSSA exams are alarmingly low, ranging from just 9.4% to 23.4% in English Language Arts and 9.7% to 17.4% in Math across different grade levels, far below the state averages of 44% to 53.5% in Math and 44.7% to 48.6% in English Language Arts. The school's 4th-grade Science proficiency rate of 27.6% is also significantly lower than the state average of 77.1%. These academic performance concerns suggest that the school is struggling to provide a high-quality education to its students.
Despite the school's low academic performance, it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 12.9 and a high per-student spending of $22,508 for the 2022-2023 school year. However, the school serves a population with significant socioeconomic challenges, with 92.64% of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in the 2023-2024 school year. This suggests that the school may need to re-evaluate its resource allocation and utilization to better address the unique needs of its student population and improve academic outcomes.
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