Paul Cuffee Lower School

As a moderately sized elementary school in Providence, Rhode Island, Paul Cuffee Lower School educates 358 students from grades K through 5, part of Paul Cuffee Charter Sch.

Paul Cuffee Charter Sch comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 790 students; Paul Cuffee Lower School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Paul Cuffee Lower School reports that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, Providence County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Paul Cuffee Lower School has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages around 13.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Providence County (around 64%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Providence County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,787 per year, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Paul Cuffee Lower School is one of 206 public schools in Providence County (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students).

The closest other public school is Nathanael Greene Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area. Paul Cuffee Lower School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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