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Providence, Rhode Island - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
R.I. Sch for the Deaf operates 1 public schools serving 78 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Rhode Island. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Providence County.
The funding mix is 5.6% local, 88.8% state, and 5.5% federal, a state-revenue-heavy mix that insulates the district somewhat from local property-tax volatility, though it ties funding to state budget cycles.
a 77:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 42.9% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 46.8% Hispanic or Latino, 28.6% White, 14.3% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is R.I. School for the Deaf, enrolling 77 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
R.I. School for the Deaf accounts for 98.7% of all R.I. Sch for the Deaf student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of R.I. Sch for the Deaf a distant remainder — means R.I. Sch for the Deaf-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
R.I. Sch for the Deaf has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 94.9% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
R.I. Sch for the Deaf student-counselor ratio is 77:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
R.I. Sch for the Deaf chronic absenteeism rate is 42.9% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
R.I. Sch for the Deaf has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 78 students.
What is the demographic composition of R.I. Sch for the Deaf?
R.I. Sch for the Deaf students are 46.8% Hispanic or Latino, 28.6% White, 14.3% African American, 2.6% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.