Rhode Island Alternative Academy, Pawtucket RI: 1-12

Rhode Island Alternative Academy is a special education private school in Pawtucket, RI teaching grades 1-12. It reported 98 students and about 8.9 students for every teacher in the 2023-24 federal survey.

Can you use RI scholarship tax credit here?

Rhode Island publishes no school list

The Division of Taxation posts a PDF list of qualified scholarship organizations (updated for 2025), not a list of schools. Ask the school which organization it works with. Official RI scholarship tax credit source.

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School facts

Grades: 1-12
Students: 98
Teachers: 11
Students per teacher: 8.9
Student body: Coeducational
Program: Special education
Affiliation: Nonsectarian
Go on to a 4-year college: 0%
Setting: Suburb

These are the numbers the school gave the U.S. Department of Education for the 2023-24 school year, published in July 2026. The survey counts students in kindergarten to grade 12, not pre-K. Enrollment and staffing move every year, so ask the school for today’s figures. Where this comes from. Something wrong? Tell us and we will fix it.

Rhode Island Alternative Academy tuition, and what RI scholarship tax credit pays

We have not verified a tuition figure for Rhode Island Alternative Academy yet. Every private school sets its own price and most share it on request: ask for the full-year tuition for your child’s grade plus required fees, or look for a tuition page on the school’s website. Then put the figure in the calculator below to see what RI scholarship tax credit leaves you to pay.

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About $3,245 on average (2024) Each scholarship organization sets the amount. The average is from EdChoice.

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Tuition at nearby private schools

School	Published tuition	Year	Miles
St. Raphael Academy	$15,150	2026-27	0.4
St. Teresa School	$6,345	2025-26	1.6
Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island	$26,900	2026-27	2.8

Each figure was read on that school's own website and is linked on its page. Ranges run from the lowest to the highest grade band.

Other private schools nearby

School	Grades	Students	Per teacher	Affiliation	Miles
St. Raphael Academy	9-12	430	12.5	Roman Catholic	<1
St. Cecilia School	PreK-8	146	7.7	Roman Catholic	2
St. Teresa School	PreK-8	208	9.4	Roman Catholic	2
Ocean Tides School	8-12	13	not reported	Roman Catholic, all-boys	2
Providence Hebrew Day School	PreK-8	63	4.3	Jewish	3
New England Academy of Torah Girls H.S.	10-12	14	5	Jewish, all-girls	3
Jewish Community Day School of Rhode Island	PreK-5	79	3.8	Jewish	3
The Wolf School	2-8	72	not reported	Nonsectarian	3

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