Schools in Zip Code 02831

Zip code 02831 has one listed school, Hope School, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 163 students in the Scituate district. The most important finding for parents is that Hope’s strongest subject is mathematics: 57.0% of students were proficient in 2025–26, 25.1 percentage points above the Rhode Island rate.

There is no top or bottom school to compare locally because Hope is the only school listed; its results are the area’s results in this data. Overall, Hope was ahead of the state in all three subjects and ahead of the district in ELA and mathematics. In 2025–26, ELA proficiency was 43.5%, compared with 39.9% in the district and 33.1% statewide; mathematics was 57.0%, versus 41.5% and 31.9%. Science was a relative weak spot: Hope’s 33.3% was 1.3 points below the district, though 2.2 points above the state. Grade 5 ELA is another exception: Hope’s 30.0% was below both the state (31.1%) and district (32.0%), despite stronger results in grades 3 and 4.

Hope’s recent results improved in ELA and mathematics but declined in science. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose 4.4 points, from 39.1% to 43.5%, and mathematics rose 8.1 points, from 48.9% to 57.0%; science fell 6.7 points, from 40.0% to 33.3%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from 81st of 166 schools in 2023–24 to 40th of 163 in 2025–26, while its rating rose from 3 stars to 4. Hope has a 10.1-to-1 student–teacher ratio and a 25.77% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–25. Because only one school is listed, the data cannot show how Hope compares with other schools in the zip code on these characteristics.