BVP Press Releases

Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) has released a new report on charter school performance. Building on the 2013 report, the 2017 report examines data from public schools in 24 states, Washington DC and New York City. The researchers compared student outcomes for traditional district schools, independent charter schools, Charter Management [...]

Blackstone Valley Prep, Valor Collegiate, and the International School of Louisiana Receive the Coalition’s Inaugural Awards WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Board, members, staff, and partners honored Blackstone Valley Prep as School of the Year for best exemplifying the Coalition’s values. The Coalition also awarded Valor Collegiate as the Best Newcomer [...]

Cumberland, RI – Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) Board of Directors voted unanimously to appoint Michaela Keegan as the new Head of School for BVP High School. Dr. Keegan is currently assistant principal at Cole Middle School in East Greenwich and will join BVP for the 2017-18 school year. Executive Director Jeremy Chiappetta enthusiastically recommended Michaela […]

By Eric Benevides, Valley Breeze Sports Editor. To view the original article featured in The Valley Breeze, click here. LINCOLN – Kevin Payette remembers all too well the start of his Blackstone Valley Prep boys’ basketball team’s inaugural season in the Coastal Prep League. It was two years ago when his freshmen-only squad had dropped […]

Cumberland, RI – Yesterday Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy and Civic Builders held a groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the launch of construction of BVP High School. The school is projected to be ready for the 2017-18 school year. It will be home to 320 scholars, grades 9-12. Ceremony attendees included Lt. Governor Daniel McKee, Mayor […]

Today, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) announced that Blackstone Valley Prep Middle School 1 (MS1) and twenty-one other schools across the state are Commended. RIDE’s 2016 classifications, the highest in their accountability system, are based on Composite Index Scores that comprise measures of student proficiency (in English language arts and mathematics), gap [...]

  Yesterday, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) released the statewide results from the 2016 PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers) Assessments. The test was administered last spring at the end of the 2015-2016 academic year. Blackstone Valley Prep (BVP) student achievement was some of the highest in the state. […]

On Monday, June 20th, senior leadership at Blackstone Valley Prep learned that disrespectful and disparaging written comments about students and families were allegedly written by some of our high school staff. We immediately launched a full internal investigation which included interviewing the alleged teachers involved. That investigation is ongoing. Late yesterday, Blackstone [...]

At a ceremony at the Rockwell School (Bristol Warren), Governor Raimondo yesterday (June 14, 2016) honored the 17 schools that the R.I. Department of Education (RIDE) has designated as 2016 Commended Schools, the highest classification on the Rhode Island accountability system. The Rockwell School and the Fort Barton Elementary School (Tiverton) have been commended for […]