Summary:
ZIP code 02859 has one listed school, Steere Farm Elementary School, which serves grades 2–5 and has 268 students. Its 2025–2026 results are above the Rhode Island state average in all three reported all-grade subjects: 39.3% in English language arts (ELA), 37.9% in math and 38.1% in science, compared with 33.1%, 31.9% and 31.1% statewide. The most important finding is that Steere Farm scored above the state in ELA, math and science.
Within the reported grade-level results, grade 3 ELA stands out most: 48.5%, or 10.0 percentage points above the state’s 38.5%; grade 5 ELA is the closest comparison, at 31.3% versus 31.1%. Math results are above the state in each reported grade, by 2.4 to 4.7 points, and grade 5 science is 5.5 points higher (38.1% versus 32.6%). The school also exceeds the Burrillville district’s all-grade results by 12.7 points in ELA, 13.4 in math and 8.9 in science. Because Steere Farm is the only school listed for this ZIP code, it is both the highest and lowest local school in the data, so there is no school-to-school comparison.
Recent all-grade results show a mixed pattern rather than a clear across-the-board rise: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA increased 3.7 points, math fell 2.8 points and science edged up 0.1 point. The three-subject average rose slightly, from 38.1% to 38.4%. SchoolDigger ranked Steere Farm at the 62nd percentile in both years, up from the 58th percentile in 2023–2024. The reported student–teacher ratio is 13.4, and the free/reduced-lunch rate is 35.45%, both from 2024–2025; these are context about the school, not explanations for its scores. State results from 2024–2025 are not provided, so the school’s year-to-year changes cannot be compared with changes statewide.
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