Bridge Academy

Bridge Academy is one of the one-room-style high schools in Providence, Rhode Island, part of Providence, with 117 students on its rolls from grades 10 through 12. By comparison, Rhode Island's public schools average about 679 students each, so Bridge Academy sits 83% leaner than that benchmark.

Providence comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 20,645 students; Bridge Academy is among them.

Demographically, Bridge Academy reports that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 65% of students at Bridge Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Providence County shows median household income runs about $78,787, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Providence County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), of which Bridge Academy is one.

Central High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

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