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Manchester, New Hampshire - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Polaris Charter School operates 1 public schools serving 120 students, placing it among the smallest districts in New Hampshire. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Hillsborough County.
and 46.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 63.9% White, 12.6% Hispanic or Latino, 9.2% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Polaris Charter School, enrolling 119 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Polaris Charter School accounts for 99.2% of all Polaris Charter School student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Polaris Charter School a distant remainder — means Polaris Charter School-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Polaris Charter School chronic absenteeism rate is 46.2% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Polaris Charter School has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 120 students.
What is the demographic composition of Polaris Charter School?
Polaris Charter School students are 63.9% White, 12.6% Hispanic or Latino, 9.2% African American, 3.4% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.