Summary:
Zip code 02907 has one listed middle school, Providence Preparatory Charter, serving grades 5–8 with 244 students. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates are below Rhode Island’s statewide rates in every reported subject: 13.7% in English Language Arts (ELA) versus 33.1% statewide, 16.6% in math versus 31.9%, and 12.0% in science versus 31.1%. The most important finding for parents is that the school trails the state across all three subjects, by 15.3 to 19.4 percentage points.
There are no other listed schools in the ZIP code to compare as local standouts, so the school is both the highest and lowest in this list by default. Within its results, math is the relative strength: its 15.3-point state gap is 4.1 points smaller than the ELA gap and 3.8 points smaller than the science gap. Grade 7 is a relative bright spot, with ELA proficiency of 18.0% and math at 20.8%; its math rate is 7.1 points below the state rate, the smallest grade-level math gap reported. Grade 8 ELA is a weaker result at 8.8%, 24.3 points below the state. Grade 5 math is under 5%, more than 26.8 points below the state benchmark.
Results improved in math and science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while ELA declined: math rose from 10.9% to 16.6%, science from 8.7% to 12.0%, and ELA fell from 16.5% to 13.7%. The simple average across those subjects increased 2.1 points, to 14.1%, despite the ELA drop. SchoolDigger’s rank history also shows a rebound, from the 21st percentile in 2024–25 to the 28th in 2025–26, though still below the 33rd percentile in 2023–24; the supplied summaries differ on the latest rank and stars (49th of 68, two stars, versus 47th of 61, one star). The reported free/reduced-lunch rate is 99.59%, and spending is $18,940 per student for 2024–25; no student–teacher ratio is supplied.
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