PUBLIC ACADEMY FOR PERFORMING ARTS
ALBUQUERQUE · NM · ALBUQUERQUE · Public charter · K-12 combined
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ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE → GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS → NEX GEN ACADEMY → HEALTH LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL → EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY → CESAR CHAVEZ COMMUNITY SCHOOL → DIGITAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY → AMY BIEHL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL →📋 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: ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE, GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS, NEX GEN ACADEMY 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.
🏛️ Your state's public flagship
University of New Mexico-Main Campus
The in-state tuition gap is the flagship's biggest draw — most in-state families pay far less than the out-of-state sticker. Average net price after aid runs about $15,489/yr. Admission odds depend on your student's GPA and test scores, not which high school they attend.
Source: IPEDS admissions, tuition & enrollment + College Scorecard net price. Flagship = the state's primary public research university.
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 +1.3%/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 29 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $408,349/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.
Most similar nearby high schools
The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABQ SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 1.2 | 205 | +33.1% |
| GILBERT L SENA CHARTER HS ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 1.0 | 185 | +71.3% |
| NEX GEN ACADEMY ALBUQUERQUE |
Public | 4.5 | 198 | -27.5% |
| HEALTH LEADERSHIP HIGH SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 5.9 | 233 | +0.4% |
| EARLY COLLEGE ACADEMY ALBUQUERQUE |
Public | 6.7 | 212 | +5.5% |
| CESAR CHAVEZ COMMUNITY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 4.5 | 181 | -3.2% |
| DIGITAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY ACADEMY ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 6.6 | 258 | -3.4% |
| AMY BIEHL CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE |
Public · charter | 7.7 | 196 | -16.9% |