The top reported proficiency rate is 27% in English language arts. The lowest is 25% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Silver Spring School
Silver Spring School sits on Silver Spring Avenue in East Providence, Rhode Island, serving kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the East Providence district. It is a small elementary school, with roughly even class sizes across the grades. The student body is racially mixed, with white students forming the largest single group and Black, Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students all represented in meaningful proportions. A slender majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which marks the school as serving a moderate-income community rather than an affluent one.
On the most recent Rhode Island state assessments, roughly a quarter of tested students reached proficiency in both math and English language arts. Science results for fifth grade landed in the same neighborhood. These are modest proficiency rates, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking what instructional supports and interventions are in place for students who are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks. Participation was near-universal across all three subjects, which means the scores reflect nearly the full student body rather than a skewed subset. Only one year of assessment data is available, so there is no trend to read yet; the school's results could be stable, improving, or slipping, and the data on hand does not tell us which.
Some information a parent might expect is simply absent from the available data. The school did not report counts or rates for students with individualized education programs or for English learners, so it is impossible to characterize those populations here. There is no discipline data, no staffing or class-size detail, no attendance figure, and no course or program access information. Title I status was not reported. None of these gaps necessarily indicate a problem; they reflect what was and was not collected or provided. Because Silver Spring is an elementary school, it has no graduation rate and no high school course offerings, and those omissions are expected for the grade band it serves.
East Providence itself is a working- and middle-class city bordering Providence to the east. The locale brief for the immediate area was not available due to a web-search limitation, so there is no sourced detail here on neighborhood character, amenities, or recent local changes. What the housing data does show is that home values in the school's zip code sit below the Rhode Island state benchmark but above the national one, and the price-to-income ratio suggests that buying a home in this area is moderately stretching for a typical household. Rental data was not available for this zip code. Mortgage costs exceed typical local rents by a meaningful margin, which is a common pattern in markets where ownership carries a premium over renting.
At the district level, one publicly reported change stands out. East Providence High School was rebuilt and opened in 2021, replacing the prior facility. For families with younger children at Silver Spring, this matters as a forward-looking signal: the secondary pathway their children will eventually enter has seen recent capital investment, which can affect both the quality of the educational environment and the broader appeal of the district to families.
For a parent weighing Silver Spring, the picture is that of a small, diverse neighborhood elementary with moderate-income enrollment and state test results that leave considerable room for growth. The building block of strong participation is in place. What is missing from the public data, from special-population counts to program offerings, makes it harder to form a full judgment from the page alone, and a visit or a call to the school would help fill in the gaps that the data does not cover.
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