The reported proficiency rate for English language arts is 0%.
Original Research by School Decision on Kreiva Academy Public Charter School (m)
Kreiva Academy Public Charter School sits on Pine Street in Manchester, New Hampshire's largest city. It is a public charter school serving middle grades only, sixth through eighth. The school is very small even by middle-school standards, with an enrollment that works out to roughly a dozen or so students per grade. A substantial share of its students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is majority white, with a meaningful portion identifying as two or more races, and smaller Black and Hispanic groups. The school reports no students identifying as Asian, American Indian or Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not available, so those pieces of the picture are missing here.
Manchester itself is a city of real scale for New Hampshire, rooted in its industrial past along the Merrimack River. The Amoskeag Millyard, once home to the largest cotton textile operation in the world, still anchors the city's identity. After textile manufacturing declined following World War II, the local economy diversified, and today the city hosts technology firms, cultural venues, sports arenas, and a mix of residential and commercial districts. It sits roughly an hour's drive north-northwest of Boston. Housing in the school's zip code sits below the state benchmark for typical home values but above the national one, and rents are moderate by New England standards. A family considering the area would find an urban setting with working-class roots and a broadening economic base.
The academic picture for Kreiva is thin and, on the available evidence, concerning. New Hampshire administers the SAS assessment in math, English language arts, and science. For the most recent year on record, sixth-grade math results were suppressed due to no tested students being reported. Seventh-grade math proficiency was also suppressed, though a partial participation rate was recorded for that grade. Only eighth-grade results were reportable, and across all three subjects, the share of students reaching proficiency was at the very bottom of the reported range, with no students clearing the proficient threshold in ELA and the same near-zero band in math and science. Average scale scores were reported for the eighth-grade group.
These results come from very small tested groups, which makes any single year unstable as a measure. Participation rates among eighth graders were also below full, ranging across subjects, so the proficiency figures may not capture every enrolled student. Still, the pattern is consistent across subjects and worth taking seriously. A parent weighing this school may want to look into what instructional supports and interventions are in place, and how the school plans to address these outcomes. There was no multi-year trend data available to show whether this is a new challenge or a longer-standing one, so that context is absent.
The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and that gap simply reflects the grade band. No data was available on course access, staffing ratios, discipline, attendance, or Title I status. We looked for the charter's recent strategic or operational changes and found little that clears a lasting-impact threshold, so there is nothing to report there either. No comparison set among neighboring districts was provided, so the school cannot be positioned against its local peers here.
What a family is looking at with Kreiva is a very small, middle-grades charter school in an urban New Hampshire setting, serving a population with substantial economic need, and whose most recent state assessment results are low across every tested subject. The small enrollment means individual attention is likely available in a way larger schools cannot match, but it also means each student's results carry outsized weight in the reported figures. The missing program, staffing, and civil-rights data leaves real gaps in understanding what the day-to-day experience inside the building looks like. A family considering this school would benefit from visiting and asking directly about academic supports, teacher retention, and how the charter's mission translates into classroom practice.
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