Summary:
The Central Falls area has six schools serving elementary through high school grades: three elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Across its five K–8 schools, average 2025–2026 proficiency was 10.68% in ELA, 13.9% in math and between 12.42% and 13.42% in science, compared with state results of 33.1%, 31.9% and 31.1%. The most important finding is that every K–8 school is substantially below the state in all three subjects.
No single K–8 school leads in every subject: Raices Dual Language Academy leads in All Grades math at 18% and science at 20.8%, while Ella Risk School leads in ELA at 12.2%. The gaps between the top and bottom K–8 results are 8.4 points in math (Raices Dual Language and Calcutt Middle School at 9.6%), 3.2 points in ELA (Ella Risk and Veterans Memorial Elementary at 9%), and more than 15.8 points in science (Raices Dual Language and Veterans, below 5%). One notable grade-level result is Raices Dual Language’s fifth-grade math at 29.2%, just 2.6 points below the state. The high school’s grade 11 SAT results are 18.4% in ELA and 6.4% in math, versus 47.8% and 23.5% statewide.
Results have improved in several places, but not consistently. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, K–8 average ELA rose 1.78 points and math rose 2.22; Raices Upper Dual Language Academy had the largest math increase, 5.2 points, while Raices Dual Language’s math fell 2.2 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rose from 5 to 18 for Calcutt and from 6 to 22 for Raices Upper; its current percentiles are 22 for Raices Upper and 21 for Central Falls Senior High. School characteristics do not point to one consistent leader: Ella Risk has the lowest reported free/reduced-lunch rate among the elementary schools at 90.1%, while Raices Dual Language has the highest at 96.6% and leads in math and science. These measures provide context, not an explanation for school results.
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