Excel Academy Rhode Island

Set in North Providence, Rhode Island, Excel Academy Rhode Island is a small junior high, overseen by Excel Academy Rhode Island. It caters to 312 students across grades 5 through 7. That puts it 40% leaner than the typical public school in Rhode Island, which averages around 523 students.

Operationally, Excel Academy Rhode Island answers to Excel Academy Rhode Island, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Excel Academy Rhode Island records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 73%. Other groups include 19% Black, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Excel Academy Rhode Island qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Providence County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,787 per year, 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), Excel Academy Rhode Island is one campus in the mix.

Centredale School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Excel Academy Rhode Island.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area. Excel Academy Rhode Island is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Inside the community feed, members of the Excel Academy Rhode Island community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.