What Rhode Island School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Rhode Island school district spends $19,288 per student per year, $4,745 above the national median of $14,543, across all 60 districts the state reports. The 36 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 126,075 students account for $2.5 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Rhode Island at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $19,288 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 36 of 60 |
| Students listed | 126,075 |
| Median district, math | ≈33% |
| Median district, reading | ≈45% |
Every Rhode Island District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID. 24 further Rhode Island districts are missing because the federal boundary file places them in no ZIP code, which is normal for charter and virtual districts with no attendance area.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Providence School District | 21,656 | $22,536 | 12% | 18% | 74% |
| Cranston School District | 10,258 | $17,810 | 27% | 42% | 85% |
| Warwick School District | 8,168 | $22,540 | 26% | 39% | 86% |
| Pawtucket School District | 8,127 | $17,139 | 17% | 24% | 81% |
| Woonsocket School District | 5,664 | $18,236 | 12% | 16% | 74% |
| East Providence School District | 5,053 | $19,156 | 26% | 36% | 86% |
| Cumberland School District | 4,724 | $15,629 | 53% | 62% | 87% |
| Coventry School District | 4,392 | $18,961 | 35% | 51% | 91% |
| North Kingstown School District | 3,914 | $18,855 | 52% | 63% | 93% |
| West Warwick School District | 3,562 | $19,354 | 18% | 27% | 86% |
| North Providence School District | 3,464 | $17,717 | 27% | 43% | 86% |
| Barrington School District | 3,377 | $17,236 | 66% | 75% | 94% |
| Lincoln School District | 3,252 | $18,794 | 46% | 50% | 88% |
| Chariho Regional School District | 3,200 | $19,456 | 47% | 60% | 89% |
| Johnston School District | 3,067 | $19,162 | 24% | 37% | 90% |
| Bristol-Warren Regional School District | 2,941 | $19,503 | 41% | 53% | 91% |
| Central Falls School District | 2,701 | $20,070 | 8% | 13% | ≈72% |
| South Kingstown School District | 2,608 | $23,583 | 51% | 60% | 90% |
| East Greenwich School District | 2,552 | $17,766 | 56% | 66% | ≈98% |
| Smithfield School District | 2,392 | $17,677 | 42% | 58% | ≈92% |
| Westerly School District | 2,378 | $24,106 | 38% | 52% | 91% |
| Portsmouth School District | 2,247 | $18,687 | 47% | 59% | 94% |
| Burrillville School District | 2,128 | $17,729 | 20% | 34% | 92% |
| Middletown School District | 2,073 | $20,483 | 33% | 42% | ≈82% |
| Newport School District | 1,975 | $24,290 | 21% | 28% | ≈77% |
| Tiverton School District | 1,678 | $19,221 | 41% | 49% | ≈92% |
| North Smithfield School District | 1,614 | $17,779 | 50% | 62% | ≈92% |
| Exeter-West Greenwich Regional School District | 1,572 | $21,191 | 49% | 56% | ≈92% |
| Foster-Glocester Regional School District | 1,396 | $20,168 | 31% | 55% | ≈87% |
| Narragansett School District | 1,206 | $25,802 | 42% | 55% | ≈92% |
| Scituate School District | 1,196 | $22,330 | 41% | 56% | ≈92% |
| Glocester Elementary School District (elementary district) | 537 | $21,134 | 55% | 64% | — |
| Jamestown School District (elementary district) | 444 | $25,025 | 59% | 63% | — |
| Foster Elementary School District (elementary district) | 221 | $22,032 | ≈32% | ≈42% | — |
| Little Compton School District (elementary district) | 209 | $31,297 | ≈47% | ≈47% | — |
| New Shoreham School District | 129 | $45,147 | ≈42% | ≈72% | — |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
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