Carter School
Dorchester · MA · Boston · Public · K-12 combined
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Melvin H. King South End Academy → O'Bryant School of Math & Science → Boston Arts Academy → Madison Park Technical Vocational High School → Snowden International High School → The Newman School → The Newman School → Commonwealth School →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Carter School compares for families
What families should know about Carter School.
- ▸ LocallyMA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+14 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Melvin H. King South End Academy, O'Bryant School of Math & Science, Boston Arts Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +5.3%/year, projecting from 2024's 28 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melvin H. King South End Academy Boston |
Public | 0.6 | 76 | -36.7% |
| O'Bryant School of Math & Science Roxbury |
Public | 0.7 | 1,185 | -5.4% |
| Boston Arts Academy Boston |
Public | 0.7 | 498 | +1.6% |
| Madison Park Technical Vocational High School Roxbury |
Public | 0.7 | 1,090 | -3.7% |
| Snowden International High School Boston |
Public | 0.8 | 421 | -13.2% |
| The Newman School Boston |
Private | 0.8 | 212 | -23.5% |
| The Newman School Boston |
Private | 0.8 | 235 | -9.6% |
| Commonwealth School Boston |
Private | 0.9 | 148 | — |