Public school / Primary / Charter
Blackstone Valley Prep Element
Cumberland, Rhode Island
- NCES ID
- 440001500496
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Blackstone Valley Prep Element is a public primary school in Cumberland, Rhode Island, run by Blackstone Valley Prep A Ri Mayoral Academy. It enrols 262 students — the 70756th largest of 317 public schools in Rhode Island.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
262
Teachers
28.0
Students per teacher
9.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
58.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Blackstone Valley Prep A Ri Mayoral Academy
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Blackstone Valley Prep E. 2409 students
- 2Blackstone Valley Prep High399 students
- 3Blackstone Valley Prep395 students
- 4Blackstone Valley Prep Upper E387 students
- 5Blackstone Valley Prep Jr High324 students
- 6Blackstone Valley Prep Element262 students
- Enrollment−30.3%
- Teachers+3.7%
- Students per teacher−28.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+40.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory