Summit Charter
Cashiers · NC · Summit Charter · Public charter · K-12 combined
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Highlands School → Victory Christian School → Rosman High → Macon Multi-Purpose Juvenile Home → Franklin High → Bartram Academy → Smoky Mountain High School → Jackson Community School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 3 AP courses offered — Limited
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 25% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 18% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Summit Charter compares for families
What families should know about Summit Charter.
- ▸ LocallyNC sits right at the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math — local school quality will set your kid apart.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Highlands School, Victory Christian School, Rosman High and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 25% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 18% by test-taker volume
Source: 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: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. 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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +7.7%/year, projecting from 2024's 315 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $13,385 per student in district revenue, the 142 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $1,900,670/year in additional funding.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highlands School Highlands |
Public | 6.4 | 92 | -22.7% |
| Victory Christian School Sylva |
Private | 15.8 | 77 | -15.4% |
| Rosman High Rosman |
Public | 16.3 | 254 | -7.6% |
| Macon Multi-Purpose Juvenile Home Franklin |
Private | 16.4 | 8 | — |
| Franklin High Franklin |
Public | 16.6 | 996 | +0.3% |
| Bartram Academy Franklin |
Public | 16.7 | 102 | -7.3% |
| Smoky Mountain High School Sylva |
Public | 18.3 | 881 | -0.7% |
| Jackson Community School Sylva |
Public | 21.2 | 46 | — |