BRIDGEPORT – The state school board on Thursday gave a five-year renewal to Park City Prep Charter School and approved its request to expand to the fifth grade.
The eight-year-old charter school, which has a math and science focus, currently serves six through eighth graders. The school, located at 1550 State Street, will grow from 260 to 300 students beginning this fall.
Bruce Ravage, the school’s founder and director, said the school’s attrition rate is three percent when students who move out of the area are not counted. He said in 2013, 96 percent of Park City Prep graduates gained admission to selective public and private high schools such as Hopkins in New Haven and Fairfield College Preparatory School.
For 2012-13, Park City Prep’s school performance index – which factors in the state test scores of all students – was 72.9, compared to 53.7 for Bridgeport. In 2013, about one third of sixth graders in their first year at Park City scored at the goal level in math and 43.5 percent scored in the goal level in reading comparable to sixth graders in the district. Some 73.7 percent of eighth graders in 2013, after three years at Park City Prep met the state goal in math, more than double the city average. In reading, 67.5 met the goal, compared to 45.3 for the city.
The eight-year-old charter school, which has a math and science focus, currently serves six through eighth graders. The school, located at 1550 State Street, will grow from 260 to 300 students beginning this fall.
Bruce Ravage, the school’s founder and director, said the school’s attrition rate is three percent when students who move out of the area are not counted. He said in 2013, 96 percent of Park City Prep graduates gained admission to selective public and private high schools such as Hopkins in New Haven and Fairfield College Preparatory School.
For 2012-13, Park City Prep’s school performance index – which factors in the state test scores of all students – was 72.9, compared to 53.7 for Bridgeport. In 2013, about one third of sixth graders in their first year at Park City scored at the goal level in math and 43.5 percent scored in the goal level in reading comparable to sixth graders in the district. Some 73.7 percent of eighth graders in 2013, after three years at Park City Prep met the state goal in math, more than double the city average. In reading, 67.5 met the goal, compared to 45.3 for the city.