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State Report Card
Profile of Rhode Island Schools
Public Schools In the 2002-03 school year, the state’s local school districts operated 301 public schools plus 3 charter schools: Textron Chamber of Commerce Academy and Times2 Academy, both in the Providence School District, and the New England Laborers/Cranston Public Schools Construction Careers Academy. The state, through Boards of Trustees, operates 3 schools: The Rhode Island School for the Deaf, the William M. Davies Jr. Career-Technical High School, and The Metropolitan Regional Career & Technical Center (The Met). In the 2002-03 school year, there were 6 charter schools operated by nonprofit agencies; each of these schools functions in effect as its own school district: CVS Highlander Charter Elementary School and Paul Cuffee Charter School, both in Providence; International Charter School, in Pawtucket; and the Compass Charter School and the Kingston Hill Academy, both in South Kingstown. The 7 Area Career & Technical Schools are not stand-alone high schools; they are operated by school districts, and they enroll students from outside the district. Each has its own school report; however, student test scores are attributed to the high school where the student takes core academic subjects. The Area Career & Technical Schools do not receive a school-performance classification. Though there are 7 collaboratives which provide special-education and alternative-education services for children in the districts within their region, only the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program has its own school report. The other collaboratives are considered regional programs rather than schools. Not included among the 321 public schools are the schools operated by the DCYF (the Rhode Island Training School for Youth plus two additional programs) and Hasbro Children’s Hospital, which receives state funds to educate hospitalized students. School Districts There are 36 locally operated public school districts, including four regional districts (Bristol-Warren, Chariho, Exeter-West Greenwich, Foster-Glocester). Each of the 3 schools operated by the state is a state school district; the schools operated by DCYF constitute another state school district. Each of the 6 charter schools operated by nonprofit agencies is a charter school district.
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