AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch

Located at 85 Garfield Avenue, in Cranston, Rhode Island, AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch is a modestly sized intermediate school that caters to 406 students (grades 5 through 8), run under Achievement First Rhode Island. Enrollment runs roughly 22% leaner than the state mean of about 523.

Achievement First Rhode Island runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,200 students. AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment; the rest reads as 20% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Providence County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Providence County reports that median household income runs about $78,787, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Providence County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Achievement First Iluminar, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch.

AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch operates from a commuter-belt location. As a public charter, AF Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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