Mount Pleasant High

Mount Pleasant High is one of the medium-sized 9-12 campuss in Providence, Rhode Island, one of the schools within Providence, with 997 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Rhode Island's public schools average about 679 students each, so Mount Pleasant High sits 47% above that benchmark.

Mount Pleasant High is one of 39 schools operated by Providence, a district that hosts 20,645 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Mount Pleasant High reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 14% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Mount Pleasant High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Providence County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, Providence County reports that median household earnings sit near $78,787, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Mount Pleasant High is one of 206 public schools in Providence County (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students).

Robert F. Kennedy El. School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mount Pleasant High's enrollment has increased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 963 (now 997). Class-load math has grew: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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