YouthBuild Preparatory Academy

YouthBuild Preparatory Academy is the only school in this area, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 115 students. Its reported student–teacher ratio is 28.7, and 79.13% of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–25; these figures provide context about the school community. The most important result for families is graduation: the school’s 2024–25 rate was 29.0%, 56.5 percentage points below Rhode Island’s 85.5%.

There is no separate top- or bottom-performing school to compare: YouthBuild is the only school listed, so its results are both the highest and lowest in this area. Its 2025–26 results were below the state figure in every supplied comparison. The largest gap was grade 10 ELA, with 18.5% at the school versus 56.0% statewide, a difference of 37.5 points. The smallest was grade 11 math, at 6.5% versus 23.5%, or 17.0 points below. Grade 11 SAT ELA was 19.4% compared with 47.8% statewide, while science results were under 5% for both all grades and grade 11, versus state results of 31.1% and 31.3%.

Results show some improvement, but not across every measure. Grade 11 SAT ELA rose from 9.1% in 2024–25 to 19.4% in 2025–26, narrowing the gap with the state from 42.5 to 28.4 points. In contrast, all-grades science fell from 7.1% to under 5%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 51st of 58 schools in 2025–26, at the 12th percentile—an improvement from 58th of 60 and the 3rd percentile the prior year, but still below its 51st-of-61, 16th-percentile standing in 2023–24. With only one school listed, families cannot compare school-to-school results in this area.