(Portsmouth, RI) -- The Prudence Island School graduated its first student in five years this weekend. Eighteen-year-old Jianna O'Brien, one of seven students at the school, graduated on Saturday. The Newport Daily News reports teenagers on Prudence usually attend Portsmouth High School by taking the ferry, but O'Brien transferred to the island school for her junior and senior years after growing up and attending high school in Milton, Massachusetts. She plans on attending Salem State University. The Portsmouth School Committee voted to close the Prudence school in 2007 because of declining enrollment, but money was found to keep it going.
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