Summary
Gladstone Street School is a K–5 elementary school serving 402 students in Cranston, Rhode Island. In 2025–26, its proficiency results were 13% in English language arts (ELA), 15% in math, and 16% in science. Each was below both Cranston and state results, with the largest gap in ELA: 18 percentage points below the district and 20 points below the state. The most important finding is that achievement is low across all three subjects, especially ELA.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to its benchmarks, but it remains below them: its 16% result compares with 25% in Cranston and 31% statewide. It is also closest to the nearby-school average, which was between 17.7% and under 18.3%. ELA and math were farther below nearby averages: ELA was 6 points below, and math was 8 points below. Among nearby schools with reported results, Gladstone ranked around the middle in each subject. Within the school, third grade had its strongest ELA and math results, at 17% and 20%; fourth-grade math was notably weak at 9%, 27 points below both the district and state fourth-grade results.
Results have improved over the four years shown, particularly in math, though progress has not been steady and all three subjects remain below Cranston. From 2022–23 to 2025–26, math proficiency rose by 9 percentage points, while ELA rose by 1 point and science by 5 points; the gaps with the district narrowed in each subject. SchoolDigger ranks Gladstone in the 7th percentile statewide, at 151 of 163 schools, with 0 stars—up from the 2nd percentile in 2022–23, but still near the bottom statewide. Its 11.4 students per teacher is the lowest ratio among nearby schools, whose average is 15.8. Enrollment is typical for the nearby group, while the free/reduced-lunch rate is toward the high end: 89%, compared with a nearby average of 84%. These figures describe context, not the cause of test results.
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