Massachusetts School and District Profiles

Phoenix Academy Public Charter High School, Lawrence (District)

Charter Schools

Trends – DART

Teacher Data

Teacher Data (2020-21)

	District	State
Total # of Teachers (FTE)	10.0	75,146.7
Student/Teacher Ratio	15.9 to 1	12.1 to 1
% of Teachers Licensed	100.0	97.6
Percent of teachers licensed in low poverty schools	-	99.0
Percent of teachers licensed in high poverty schools	100.0	95.8
Percent of teachers without waiver	100.0	99.8
Percent of teachers without waiver in high poverty schools	100.0	99.5
Percent of teachers without waiver in low poverty schools	-	100.0
Percent of teachers without provisional license	70.0	93.6
Percent of teachers without provisional license in high poverty schools	70.0	90.8
Percent of teachers without provisional license in low poverty schools	-	95.9
Percent of teachers without waiver or provisional license	70.0	93.5
Percent of teachers without waiver or provisional license in high poverty schools	70.0	90.5
Percent of teachers without waiver or provisional license in low poverty schools	-	95.8
Percent of experienced teachers	50.0	83.1
Percent of experienced teachers in high poverty schools	50.0	75.0
Percent of experienced teachers in low poverty schools	-	87.3
Percent teaching in-field	50.0	93.7
Percent teaching in-field in high poverty schools	50.0	90.1
Percent teaching in-field in low poverty schools	-	96.1

Administrator Data (2020-21)

	District	State
Percent of experienced administrators	71.4	75.2
Percent of experienced administrators in high poverty schools	60.0	64.6
Percent of experienced administrators in low poverty schools	-	78.8

Under Massachusetts state law, Commonwealth charter schools have different educator qualification requirements than traditional public schools and generally, as a matter of state law, are not required to be licensed. See the Educator Qualifications in Commonwealth Charter Schools technical advisory for more information.