Overview

Hope High School is a public high school on the East Side of Providence, part of the Providence Public School District. Established in 1898, it is among the older schools in this directory. Its principal is listed as Francisco Velasquez, its campus is urban, its color blue and its mascot the Blue Wave.

One directory detail is worth noting because it affects who the school actually serves: the grade span is recorded as 9-12, with the vocational school listed separately as 8-12. A profile that reports only "grades 9-12" would miss that an eighth-grade cohort may be on site through the vocational programme.

Academics

No school-specific Rhode Island assessment or report-card data was located for Hope High School. Check the Rhode Island Department of Education's school report cards directly for current results.

Neighborhood

The school sits on the East Side of Providence -- a neighborhood within the city of Providence.

We were unable to source crime or safety data specific to the East Side of Providence, and the reason is worth stating plainly because it is a trap a reader could easily fall into. Searches for "East Side Providence" return abundant, detailed, confident-looking data for East Providence, Rhode Island -- which is a different municipality altogether, with its own school district, its own police department, and its own crime statistics. It is not the East Side of Providence.

Those East Providence figures are genuinely good data about a genuinely different place: an overall crime rate variously reported at 7, 11, and 15.38 per 1,000 residents, a C- from CrimeGrade, a C+ from Niche, and a violent-crime victimization chance around 1 in 1,359. None of it is presented on this page as describing Hope High School's surroundings, because none of it does. This directory has hit the same problem before with Miami versus Miami Beach and Denver versus Englewood, and the resolution is the same: leave the gap visible rather than fill it with data from a similarly named place.

Crime & safety

City-level Providence data is available, though the two sources found disagree on the most basic question of whether the city is above or below the national average.

Nextdoor reports Providence's overall crime rate at 28.72 per 1,000 residents against a stated national average of 33.37 -- that is, below the national figure -- with violent crime at 3.41 versus a national 13.32, and property crime at 25.31 versus 20.05.

NeighborhoodScout reports Providence at 20 crimes per 1,000 residents and describes that rate as "considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America." It puts the chance of victimization at 1 in 51 overall, 1 in 363 for violent crime, and 1 in 59 for property crime, and states that Providence's crime rate is higher than that of every other city and town in Rhode Island.

These two readings cannot both be taken at face value. One source reports a higher raw rate (28.72 per 1,000) and calls the city below the national average; the other reports a lower raw rate (20 per 1,000) and calls it considerably above. The rates differ by roughly 40% and the verdicts point in opposite directions -- the same broken-benchmark problem documented on the Oklahoma City profile in this directory, where providers were found to be using national baselines that themselves differed by 45%.

NeighborhoodScout does resolve part of its own tension: it notes that against communities of similar population size, Providence's rate is noticeably lower than average, even while being high against all US communities of all sizes. That is a legitimate distinction, and it is the same comparison-group effect that made Manchester, New Hampshire look worse against its state than against the nation. But it does not explain the gap in the underlying per-1,000 figures.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. For this school we have no academic data, no neighborhood-specific safety data, and two citywide sources that disagree both on the crime rate and on its direction relative to the national average. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Hope High School (Rhode Island)" (address, founding year, NCES district and school IDs, principal, teaching staff, grade spans, enrollment, ratio, campus, colors, mascot).
  2. Nextdoor, Providence crime and safety resource page (citywide overall, violent, and property crime rates against stated national averages).
  3. NeighborhoodScout, Providence crime rates and statistics (citywide rate per 1,000, victimization odds, state and national comparisons).
  4. Sources consulted and deliberately not applied to this school, as they describe the separate city of East Providence: CrimeGrade.org East Providence overall crime page; Niche East Providence crime and safety; AreaVibes East Providence crime rates; NeighborhoodScout East Providence; Nextdoor East Providence; Citytistics East Providence.