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Rhode Island has several similarly named places that are genuinely distinct: Providence, East Providence, and North Providence are three separate municipalities with separate school districts and separate police forces, and the "East Side" is a neighborhood within Providence, not the city of East Providence. Data for one does not describe another. See the profile below for how this affects what we could and could not source.

High schools

Rhode Island school-level context

Rhode Island's K-12 system is overseen by the Rhode Island Department of Education, which publishes school-level report cards separately from the federal NCES directory used above.

A staffing-count caution that applies across this directory: for North Providence High School, Wikipedia lists "Faculty: 116" while NCES's 2024-25 record lists 85.00 classroom teachers (FTE). Those are almost certainly measuring different things -- total staff headcount versus full-time-equivalent classroom teachers -- and using them interchangeably would produce student:teacher ratios differing by roughly a third. Where this directory quotes a ratio, we state which staffing figure it came from.