Summary:
Providence has one listed middle school, Providence Preparatory Charter, serving grades 5–8 in Providence, Rhode Island. It enrolls 244 students. In 2025–26, 13.7% of students were proficient in English language arts (ELA), 16.6% in math and 12.0% in science, compared with statewide rates of 33.1%, 31.9% and 31.1%, respectively. Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, but proficiency in all three subjects is substantially below the Rhode Island rate.
Within the school, 7th grade stands out as the strongest grade in both ELA and math: 18.0% were proficient in ELA and 20.8% in math. Eighth-grade ELA is the lowest exact ELA result, at 8.8%, while 5th-grade math is reported as under 5%, the school’s lowest math result. The biggest grade-level math gap is in 5th grade, where proficiency is more than 26.8 percentage points below the state’s 31.8%; the smallest is in 7th grade, at 7.1 points below the state. There are no other schools in this list to compare with it.
Recent results show gains in math and science but a decline in ELA: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math rose 5.7 percentage points and science 3.3, while ELA fell 2.8. The simple average across the three subjects increased from 12.0% to 14.1%, despite the ELA drop. SchoolDigger’s supplied listing gives the school one star and a rank of 47 out of 61; its ranking history shows a move from the 21st percentile in 2024–25 to the 28th in 2025–26, still below the 33rd percentile in 2023–24. The school reports a 99.59% free/reduced-lunch rate and $18,940 in spending per student; no student-teacher ratio is provided. These are context figures, not explanations of the results.
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