The top reported proficiency rate is 43% in English language arts. The lowest is 33% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Lionheart Classical Academy Chartered Public School
Lionheart Classical Academy Chartered Public School is a young, tuition-free charter school in New Hampshire that opened in the fall of 2022 with a classical liberal arts curriculum grounded in civic virtues. It started serving kindergarten through fifth grade and has been adding a grade each year since. The school has publicly reported plans to grow into a full kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade institution by the end of the decade, with a charter amendment filed to expand enrollment and add sections. For a family drawn to a content-rich, classical model in a public school setting, this is the core appeal: a structured, virtues-oriented academic program that is still building itself grade by grade.
The school is small, with roughly even class sizes across each grade. Cohorts are compact enough that a handful of students moving in or out, or a few children having a strong or weak testing day, can shift proficiency results meaningfully from year to year. This is worth keeping in mind when reading the state assessment results, which come from the most recent school year and represent the school's earliest tested cohorts.
On the state math assessment, proficiency was strongest in the upper elementary grades, where roughly half of tested students met or exceeded the proficiency bar. Results in the higher grades the school has added more recently came in lower, with the most recently tested grade showing the weakest math performance. The pattern is one of decent early-grade math outcomes giving way to softer results as students move up, though with such small cohorts the trend is hard to read with confidence. Participation rates were generally strong across grades.
English language arts results tell a more mixed story. The youngest tested grade posted a low proficiency rate, but the middle elementary grade performed quite well, with a solid majority of students reaching proficiency. The upper grades landed in a middle range, with close to half of students proficient. As with math, the small numbers make it difficult to draw firm conclusions, but the ELA results suggest the school's language-rich classical curriculum may be taking hold in certain grades. Science was tested in only one grade, and about a third of those students reached proficiency.
No multi-year trend data is available yet, which is expected for a school that has only been operating for a short time. The first full assessment cycle captured here is essentially a baseline.
The student body is nearly entirely white, with very small numbers of students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not reported, nor were figures for students with individualized education programs or English learners. A parent wanting to understand how the school serves economically disadvantaged students or students with special needs would need to ask the school directly, because that information is not in the available data.
There is no graduation rate to report, which is expected because the school does not yet serve high school grades. Civil-rights data, discipline records, course-access information, staffing figures, and attendance data were not available in the provided materials. Housing and community context for the area were also not included, so this account focuses on what the academic and enrollment data show.
The school's growth plans are the most consequential thing for a prospective family to understand. With a waitlist already in place and a charter amendment aimed at expanding enrollment, the school is in active expansion. A family considering Lionheart today is looking at an institution that is still young, still adding grades, and still establishing its academic track record. The classical model and the civic-virtues framing are distinctive features that set it apart from other public options in the area. The early assessment results are a starting point rather than a settled picture, and a parent would do well to ask the school how it plans to support math growth in the upper grades and how the curriculum scales as cohorts move into middle school and eventually high school.
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