North+Cumberland+Middle+School


 * North Cumberland Middle School:**

North Cumberland Middle School is located at 400 Nate Whipple Highway in Cumberland Rhode Island. It is responsible for 649 students in grades six through eight. For every thirteen students in North Cumberland Middle School, there is one teacher (infoworks.ride.gov). This means that for the most part, the class sizes should be relatively small. This is good as it means that students are more likely to get the individual attention they need. However, there are no teachers with emergency certification at North Cumberland Middle School. Only six percent of teachers are labeled as being not highly qualified. While it would be best for this number to be lower, it is still good that it is not in the double digits, and will likely go down rather than up. Compared to Blackstone Valley Prep, which is reported as having eighty-eight percent of its teachers not being highly qualified, North Cumberland Middle School is very good. The small population of the middle school is not particularly diverse. The majority of the students are white, with only ten percent of the student population identifying as African American, Asian, Hispanic, or multiracial. Relatively few students attending North Cumberland Middle School are qualified for subsidized lunches. This is good, as that means that many of the students are from financially stable households. In comparison, Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School, which is in the same district as North Cumberland Middle School, has about 65% of its students receiving reduced lunches. Ninety percent of the students attending North Cumberland Middle School do not qualify for subsidized lunches, making it well below the state average of forty-six percent of students. As far as students with disabilities are concerned, North Cumberland Middle School has fourteen percent of their student population receiving special education. This is on par with the state average of fifteen percent of all students in Rhode Island receiving special education. However, in comparison to Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School, which has ten percent of its student population receiving special education services. Given that North Cumberland Middle School is nearly three times the size of Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School. Given this, the population of students that need to have special education services would be higher would be slightly larger. The students at North Cumberland Middle School achieve higher on the NECAP tests than the state average. Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School on average achieves lower on the NECAP than both the state average and North Cumberland Middle School. Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School only surpassed the state average in proficiency on in three groups: sixth grade math, seventh grade math and seventh grade reading. Whereas North Cumberland Middle School exceeded state proficiency averages on all areas of the NECAP assessments (infoworks.ride.gov). This could mean two things: either the quality of education in North Cumberland Middle School is higher than that of Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School, or that they are more apt to teach to the test in order to produce higher scores on the tests. It should be noted however, that Blackstone Valley Prep is a relatively new school and may not have completely adjusted itself as an educational facility yet. North Cumberland Middle School had about 40 incidents of suspension in the school year of 2011-2012. This is only about 5% of the student body. In the state of Rhode Island, about 9% of students were involved in suspensions.

InfoWorks! Rhode Island Education Data Reporting - RIDE.ri.gov. (n.d.). // InfoWorks! Rhode Island Education Data Reporting - RIDE.ri.gov //. Retrieved November 4, 2013, from http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/search/schools-and-districts