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Providence, Rhode Island - 1 schools
At $22,234 per pupil, Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy ranks #13 of 60 Rhode Island districts by per-pupil spending (Rhode Island districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
160
Total Enrollment
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Schools
$22,234
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy operates 1 public schools serving 160 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Rhode Island. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high 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.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $22,234 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 60 Rhode Island districts by per-pupil spending. See how Rhode Island compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 26.1% local, 51.4% state, and 22.4% 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 187:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 95.7% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 67.2% Hispanic or Latino, 15.6% African American, 11.3% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Sheila Skip Nowell, enrolling 187 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Sheila Skip Nowell accounts for 100.0% of all Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy a distant remainder — means Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. 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.
Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 99.4% 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.
Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy student-counselor ratio is 187:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy chronic absenteeism rate is 95.7% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to Sheila Skip Nowell Leadership Academy's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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