Public school / High
Portsmouth High School
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
- NCES ID
- 440087000207
- District
- Portsmouth
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Portsmouth High School is a public high school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, run by Portsmouth. It enrols 796 students — the 14415th 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
796
Teachers
69.0
Students per teacher
11.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
14.1%
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 Portsmouth
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.
- 1Portsmouth High School796 students
- 2Portsmouth Middle School618 students
- 3Howard Hathaway School422 students
- 4Melville School328 students
- Enrollment+111.7%
- Teachers+155.6%
- Students per teacher−12.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−66.1%
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