East+Providence+High+School+Fall+2011

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Damani Myers

East Providence High School 2000 Pawtucket Avenue East Providence, RI 02914-1795 (401) 435-7806

= Introduction = East Providence High School (EPHS) is a public high school located on 2000 Pawtucket Avenue and is one of the twelve schools in East Providence school district. East Providence is the only high school in the district and accommodates 1723 students. Located in a partially urban area EPHS sits five minuets from Wampanoag Mall and Providence Country Day School. East Providence has 155 faculty members including Principal Janet M. Sheehan and Vice Principals Shani Wallace and Araxie Deblois.

= **Community Background** = East Providence is a hard working community. The median household income is $39,108 compared to the state average $42,090. As of 2000 the median family income was $48,463 compared to Rhode Island $52,781. East Providence is a predominately Hispanic (47,037) and White (39,525) community. With Black/African Americans (2,709) forming the third largest ethnicity and Asian (714) and American Indian or Alaska native (256) forming the rest of the community. This hard working community has eight-hundred eight families below the poverty level and four thousand one-hundred thirty individuals below that level.
 * || East Providence || Rhode Island ||
 * Median Household income || $39,108 || $42,090 ||
 * Median Family income || $48,463 || $52,781 ||
 * Per capita income || $19,527 || $21,688 ||
 * Families below poverty level || 808 || 23,608 ||
 * Individuals below poverty level || 4,130 || 120,548 ||


 * || East Providence || Rhode Island ||
 * Hispanic || 47,037 || 130,655 ||
 * White || 39,525 || 856,869 ||
 * Black/African American || 2,709 || 60,189 ||
 * Asian || 714 || 30,457 ||
 * American Indian or Alaska native || 256 || 2,038 ||

= District Summary = East Providence is fairly average district. The third through eighth grade NECAP scores fall with in eight percent of the state average, but high school's test scores fall off. The worrisome numbers are the eleventh grade math and writing scores. With a writing score of thirty-seven percent, East Providence falls fourteen percent short of the state average of fifty-one. The math scores are not in much better shape; the district average is twenty-six percent, while the state average is thirty-three percent. These low test scores are quite a mystery. Although the district has low high school test scores, the attendance rate sits at ninety percent; yet only seventy-one percent of people graduate on time. This may be due to the seemingly high amount of incidents reported in the district. Reporting three-hundred ninety-one incidents may seem like a tear drop to the seven-hundred eighty-three reported in Central Falls, it may still explain the discrepancies between graduation rate and attendance.

School Analysis
East Providence High School is not a high preforming school. The eleventh grade NECAP scores don't even meet the state average. The school preform well in reading with a seventy three percent, but poorly on math (twenty-six percent) and sciences (twenty-nine percent). These low NECAP scores became low SAT and AP test scores in Senior year.

SAT scores
 * || East Providence || Rhode Island || Nation ||
 * Math average || 453 || 482 || 514 ||
 * Reading average || 466 || 482 || 497 ||
 * Writing average || 447 || 474 || 489 ||

AP scores Rhode Island's average High school classroom student to teacher ratio is 1:11, but East Providence sit at 1:12. Four percent of the teachers are not highly qualified teachers, by Rhode Island standards. Small factors such as these may factor into the lower end NECAP and SAT scores. The low test scores do not match the high attendance rate of ninety percent.
 * || East Providence || Rhode Island ||
 * Number of APs Taken || 85 || 4955 ||
 * Percent Scored at College-level || 27% || 58% ||

Conclusion
East Providence High School is developing school located in a hard working community. The High attendance rate, shows promise but the high percent of not highly qualified teachers needs to be changed. In order for this school to move forward more of the teachers need to be qualified and slightly smaller class sizes. East Providence High School is an average public high with a bright future.

= References =

[|http://factfinder.census.gov] http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/school/east-providence-high-school http://eastprovidencehighschool.com/web/