RINI Middle College

Set in Providence, Rhode Island, RINI Middle College is a modestly sized 9-12 campus, part of Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College. It works with 462 students across grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Rhode Island's public schools average about 679 students each, so RINI Middle College sits 32% below that benchmark.

RINI Middle College sits inside Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, RINI Middle College shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 22% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 84% of students at RINI Middle College qualify 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 somewhat above typical.

Across the wider county, Providence County reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,787 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 RINI Middle College is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sheila Skip Nowell, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies an inner-city site. As a public charter, RINI Middle College runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. RINI Middle College's enrollment has increased 75% since 2018, when it stood at 264 (now 462). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 14% to 4%.

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