Summary:
Woonsocket, Rhode Island, has seven elementary schools: six serve PK or kindergarten through grade 5, while RISE Prep Lower Academy School serves kindergarten through grade 8. Across the schools, the unweighted averages are 15.1% proficient in ELA, 13.3% in science, and between 11.8% and under 12.5% in math, compared with state rates of 33.1%, 31.1%, and 31.9%, respectively. The clearest area-wide finding is that proficiency is substantially below state levels across all three subjects, even at the local highs.
RISE Prep Lower Academy leads the 2025–26 all-grades results in ELA, at 26.4%, and math, at 24.6%; those scores are 4.8 and 9.5 percentage points above the next-highest schools, Leo A. Savoie School and Harris School. Globe Park School leads science at 18.7%, 1.2 points above Harris. At the other end, Pothier-Citizens Elementary Campus has the lowest ELA and science results, at 7.6% and 6.1%, and math below 5%. Grade-level results can tell a different story: Savoie’s grade 3 ELA is 37.7%, just 0.8 points below the state, while RISE leads grade 3 math at 32.1%.
Recent results are mixed rather than showing a general improvement: among the six schools with two years of data, average ELA rose about 2.3 points, science fell 3.6 points, and math declined, though its exact average is unknown because Pothier’s result is suppressed; Kevin K. Coleman School has no prior-year results in the supplied data. SchoolDigger ranks RISE highest among these schools statewide, at 108 of 163, and Pothier lowest, at 163 of 163. Context measures do not neatly track results: RISE has the group’s highest student-teacher ratio, 16.3, while Pothier’s is 13.6; their reported free/reduced-lunch rates also differ, at 70.62% and 66.28%. These figures describe school context, not the reasons for score differences.
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