Apprenticeship Exploration Sch

Apprenticeship Exploration Sch is a minimally staffed high school in Cranston, Rhode Island, one of the schools within Cranston. The school teaches 176 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 679 students per school, that is 74% below typical.

Within Cranston, which oversees 22 schools and 9,861 students, Apprenticeship Exploration Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Apprenticeship Exploration Sch records that 51% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 35% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Black, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, Apprenticeship Exploration Sch shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Providence County (around 64%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Providence County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,787, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Providence County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), of which Apprenticeship Exploration Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Lawn School, around 1.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Apprenticeship Exploration Sch operates from a suburban location. Apprenticeship Exploration Sch is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 163 students in 2018 compared to 176 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 54% to 35% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 10.2:1 in 2018 to 8.0:1 in 2025.

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