Summary:
The SouthSide Elementary Charter is the only school listed in the SouthSide Charter School district; it serves kindergarten through grade 5 and has 135 students. In 2025–26, its all-grade results were below Rhode Island’s in ELA, math, and science. The most important finding for families comparing its results with statewide results is that the school trailed the state in all three subjects by about 14 to 15 percentage points.
There is no second school in this group to rank against it, so SouthSide Elementary Charter is both the group’s highest and lowest performer by default. Its all-grade results were 19.1% in ELA, 16.9% in math, and 16.7% in science, compared with state results of 33.1%, 31.9%, and 31.1%, respectively. Grade 4 was a relative bright spot: SouthSide was 8.4 points below the state in ELA and 5.9 points below in math. The largest reported gaps were in grade 3 ELA (26.5 points below the state), grade 3 math (25.1 below), and grade 5 math (25.5 below); grade 5 math was 6.3% at the school versus 31.8% statewide.
All three all-grade subject results fell from 2024–25 to 2025–26, especially science, which declined 11.9 points from 28.6% to 16.7%; ELA fell 2.2 points and math 2.8. SchoolDigger ranked the school 127th of 163 schools (22nd percentile, one star) in 2025–26, down from 116th of 166 (30th percentile, two stars) the year before, and close to its 2023–24 ranking of 128th of 166 (23rd percentile, one star). The school reported a 13.5 student–teacher ratio and an 80.74% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–25; these are contextual figures, not evidence of what caused its scores. Because this list includes just one school, it cannot show how the school compares with local peers.
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