Summary:
Zip code 02825 has one listed school, Capt. Isaac Paine Elementary School, serving students in prekindergarten through grade 5 in the Foster district. It enrolls 241 students. In 2025–26, its all-grade proficiency rates were 29.5% in English Language Arts (ELA), 29.5% in math and 35.3% in science. The most important finding is that science was above Rhode Island’s rate, while ELA and math were below it.
Capt. Isaac Paine is both the only local school listed and, by default, the area’s top and bottom school; there is no school-to-school comparison available. Against state results, science stands out positively: 35.3% of students were proficient, 4.2 percentage points above Rhode Island’s 31.1%. ELA was 29.5%, 3.6 points below the state’s 33.1%, and math was 29.5%, 2.4 points below the state’s 31.9%. Grade-level math results vary sharply: grade 3 was 16.7%, 20.4 points below the state, while grade 5 was 41.2%, 9.4 points above it. ELA was below the state in each reported grade.
Results improved in ELA and science but declined in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA rose from 26.4% to 29.5%, science from 34.1% to 35.3%, and math fell from 32.7% to 29.5%. The pattern is mixed rather than a consistent rise across subjects. SchoolDigger rates the school 2 stars and ranks it 92nd of 163 Rhode Island elementary schools, in the 44th percentile, for 2025–26; its listed rank was 95th of 166 and 43rd percentile in each of the two prior years. The school’s reported student–teacher ratio was 11.4 and its free/reduced-lunch rate was 25.31% in 2024–25; these figures describe the school’s context, not the reason for its results.
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