Public school / Primary / Charter
Paul Cuffee Lower School
Providence, Rhode Island
- NCES ID
- 440003200520
- District
- Paul Cuffee Charter Sch
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paul Cuffee Lower School is a public primary school in Providence, Rhode Island, run by Paul Cuffee Charter Sch. It enrols 359 students — the 57140th 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
359
Teachers
30.0
Students per teacher
12.0
Free or reduced-price lunch
83.3%
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 Paul Cuffee Charter Sch
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.
- 1Paul Cuffee Lower School359 students
- 2Paul Cuffee Upper School271 students
- 3Paul Cuffee Middle School185 students
- Enrollment−4.5%
- Teachers+11.1%
- Students per teacher−8.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+100.2%
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