PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS
ALBUQUERQUE · NM · ALBUQUERQUE · Public charter · K-12 combined
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MANZANO HIGH → GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS → ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE → NORTHPOINT CHARTER SCHOOL → Salam Academy → Salam Academy → ELDORADO HIGH → SANDIA HIGH →📋 At a glance
- 📚 2 AP courses offered — Moderate
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 40% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 62th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 95% (75th percentile nationally)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS compares for families
Solid mid-tier academic profile.
- ▸ LocallyNM trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−9 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: MANZANO HIGH, GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS, ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Moderate — some AP / advanced course access
Bottom 40% 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 · 2020-2162th percentile 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.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
75th percentile nationally
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
👩🏫 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
Mixed-income school
Below Title I eligibility threshold (FRPL < 35%)
25-34% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. Below the federal Title I threshold but a meaningful share of the population is income-eligible for free lunch.
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +1.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 448 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $14,081 per student in district revenue, the 24 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $337,944/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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MANZANO HIGH ALBUQUERQUE |
Public | 0.8 | 1,140 | -17.4% |
| GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 185 | +71.3% |
| ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 1.2 | 205 | +33.1% |
| NORTHPOINT CHARTER SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 1.5 | 144 | -0.7% |
| Salam Academy Albuquerque |
Private | 2.2 | 98 | +18.1% |
| Salam Academy Albuquerque |
Private | 2.2 | 97 | -2.0% |
| ELDORADO HIGH ALBUQUERQUE |
Public | 2.2 | 1,560 | -4.9% |
| SANDIA HIGH ALBUQUERQUE |
Public | 2.7 | 1,618 | -6.9% |