Summary:
RISE Prep Lower Academy School is the only school listed in RISE Prep Academies, an area serving students in kindergarten through grade 8; it has 573 students. In 2025–26, its all-grades proficiency rates were 26.4% in English language arts (ELA), 24.6% in math, and 16.1% in science. Each was below the Rhode Island rate, with gaps of 6.7, 7.3, and 15.0 percentage points, respectively. The largest concern in this comparison is science, where the school’s result was 16.1% versus 31.1% statewide.
There are no other schools in this list to rank against it, so the most useful comparisons are between its grade-level results and state rates. Sixth-grade ELA was a bright spot at 34.5%, 3.1 points above the state; fourth-grade math was 1.1 points above, and sixth-grade math was 0.2 points above. Results were lower in other grades: fifth-grade math was 12.7%, 19.1 points below the state, and eighth-grade math was 14.0%, 16.2 points below. Fifth-grade ELA was also low at 18.2%. The pattern suggests that results vary considerably by grade, particularly in math, rather than showing a consistent strength across all grades.
Recent changes were mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose from 21.6% to 26.4% and math from 22.2% to 24.6%, while science fell from 27.9% to 16.1%. SchoolDigger gives the school 2 stars and ranks it 108th of 163 schools, at the 34th percentile; that is an improvement over its 24th-percentile position in 2024–25, but below its 40th percentile in 2023–24. The reported 2024–25 student–teacher ratio is 16.3, and 67.02% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch; these are context measures, not explanations for test results. Overall, parents will find some stronger grade-level results, but the low science rate and uneven math performance are the clearest concerns.
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