Summary:
SouthSide Charter School has one elementary school, SouthSide Elementary Charter, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 135 students. There are no other schools in this area to compare, so the clearest picture comes from the school’s results relative to Rhode Island and across subjects. In 2025–26, the school’s all-grades results were below the state in ELA, math and science: 19.1% versus 33.1% in ELA, 16.9% versus 31.9% in math, and 16.7% versus 31.1% in science. The most important finding is that the school trailed the state by about 14–15 percentage points in every subject.
ELA was the school’s strongest all-grades subject, but only modestly: its 19.1% result was 2.2 points above math and 2.4 above science. Grade-level results show a more varied picture. Grade 4 was a relative bright spot, with 24% in ELA and 29.2% in math, while grade 5 math was the clearest low point at 6.3%; grade 3 ELA was also low at 12%. Grade 5 science was 16.7%, below the state’s 32.6%. Since this is the only school listed, it is both the area’s highest and lowest by default; there is no meaningful school-to-school leader or bottom performer.
Results declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in all three subjects, with the largest drop in science: ELA fell 2.2 points, math 2.8, and science 11.9. The average across the three subjects dropped from 23.2% to 17.6%. SchoolDigger ranks the school 127th of 163 statewide, in the 22nd percentile with one star, down from 116th of 166 and the 30th percentile in 2024–25; its 2023–24 percentile was 23rd. The school reports a 13.5 student–teacher ratio and a 2024–25 free/reduced-lunch rate of 80.74%, which provide context about the school but do not offer a basis for comparison with other schools in this area.
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