Mana Academy Charter School
WEST VALLEY CITY · UT · Mana Academy Charter School · Public charter · K-12 combined
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East Hollywood High → American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated School → Vanguard Academy → Granger High → Roots Charter High School → Hunter High → Realms Of Inquiry → Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 →📋 At a glance
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 6% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 10% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Mana Academy Charter School compares for families
What families should know about Mana Academy Charter School.
- ▸ LocallyUT students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+8 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: East Hollywood High, American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated School, Vanguard Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 10% 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.
🏛️ Federal Title I context
High-poverty school
Title I Schoolwide eligible
≥75% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. These schools qualify for the highest tier of federal Title I funding and typically receive extra wraparound services. Academic outcomes vary widely — check the state assessment + grad-rate tiles.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.
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 +0.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 301 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $10,064 per student in district revenue, the 14 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $140,896/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East Hollywood High WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 0.3 | 318 | +6.7% |
| American Preparatory Academy - Accelerated School WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 1.1 | 453 | -4.2% |
| Vanguard Academy WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 1.6 | 375 | +22.5% |
| Granger High WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public | 1.8 | 3,267 | -4.1% |
| Roots Charter High School WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 2.3 | 218 | +19.8% |
| Hunter High WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public | 4.0 | 2,480 | -3.6% |
| Realms Of Inquiry Taylorsville |
Private | 4.3 | 25 | — |
| Wallace Stegner Academy Kearns K-12 WEST VALLEY CITY |
Public · charter | 4.4 | 79 | — |