Summary:
North Providence, Rhode Island, has five elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5, with one school also serving prekindergarten. Across the group, average proficiency was below the state rate in all three subjects: 28.36% in English language arts (ELA) versus 33.1% statewide, 25.18% in math versus 31.9%, and 23.22% in science versus 31.1%. These are unweighted averages of the five schools, not districtwide student averages. The most important area-wide finding is that science had the largest average shortfall from the state, at 7.88 percentage points.
Centredale School stood out in ELA and math, leading the group at 33.3% and 34.3%, respectively; its math score was 15.2 points above the group’s lowest, at Stephen Olney School. Greystone School led science at 44.1%—13 points above the state rate and 31.1 points above Joseph A. Whelan School, the group’s lowest. Olney had the lowest all-grades result in each subject: 23.2% in ELA, 19.1% in math, and 16.7% in science. James L. McGuire School fell between the leaders and lowest results in all three subjects.
Recent changes were mixed, with Whelan making the strongest ELA and math gains: up 10.1 and 10.7 points, respectively, from 2024–25, while its science score remained lowest despite a 2.8-point increase. Greystone’s science score rose 12.3 points, but its ELA and math scores fell; Olney’s science score dropped 9.2 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings from 2023–24 to 2025–26 rose for Centredale (38 to 47) and Whelan (24 to 29), while Olney fell from 36 to 24. School context measures offer additional points of comparison, not explanations: Centredale had the highest reported free/reduced-lunch rate (60.63%) and the lowest student–teacher ratio (12.2), while McGuire had the highest ratio (15.3); enrollment and context figures come from different school years than the test results.
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