Polaris Charter School, Manchester NH

Original Research by School Decision on Polaris Charter School

Polaris Charter School sits on Coolidge Avenue in Manchester, New Hampshire's most populous city. The school serves kindergarten through fifth grade on a project-based model, a description that comes from the school's own charter materials. Manchester carries a deep industrial identity rooted in the Amoskeag Millyard, where the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company once operated what was reportedly the largest cotton textile plant in the world. After World War II, textile jobs departed and new industries arrived, including the technology firm DEKA. The city functions as a regional hub with residential neighborhoods, commercial districts, cultural venues, and remaining industrial activity, all set along the Merrimack River roughly an hour north of Boston by car.

The school is small for its grade band, with enrollment distributed fairly evenly across the six grades it serves. A modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is majority white, with Hispanic, multiracial, Black, and Asian students also enrolled. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status was not reported, so those figures are absent

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 350%

School 50% · District 50%

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 38%

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 355%

School 55% · District 55%

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 5 pts above county median

Grade 433%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.