Foster

The Foster area has one school, Capt. Isaac Paine Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 241 students. With no other local schools to compare, families can look to Rhode Island results for context: in 2025–26, the school was slightly below the state in overall ELA and math proficiency but above it in science. The most important finding is the sharp difference in math by grade: third grade was 20.4 percentage points below the state, while fifth grade was 9.4 points above it.

Capt. Isaac Paine is the only school in the area, so there is no meaningful local top or bottom school. Its strongest result compared with the state was science: 35.3% proficiency overall, versus 31.1% statewide, and fifth-grade science was 35.3% versus 32.6%. ELA was below the state in each reported grade: by 7.5 points in grade 3, 1.1 in grade 4, and 4.6 in grade 5; overall ELA was 29.5% compared with 33.1% statewide. Overall math was 29.5%, 2.4 points below the state, but that figure masks the grade-level contrast: proficiency was 16.7% in grade 3, 29.0% in grade 4, and 41.2% in grade 5.

Results changed unevenly from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose 3.1 percentage points to 29.5%, math fell 3.2 points to 29.5%, and science increased 1.2 points to 35.3%. SchoolDigger’s rating was 2 stars, with a statewide rank of 92 out of 163 elementary schools and a 44th-percentile standing in 2025–26; its percentile was 43 in each of the two previous years, indicating little change in relative standing. The school has a student–teacher ratio of 11.4, and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 25.31% in 2024–25; these figures describe the school but do not explain its test results. Results are available by grade only for grades 3–5.