Summary:
ZIP code 02896 has one listed elementary school, North Smithfield Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 4 in the North Smithfield district, with 583 students reported. Its 2025–26 results were substantially above state rates in both subjects: 69.5% in English language arts (ELA) versus 33.1% statewide, and 68.6% in math versus 31.9%. The most important takeaway for parents is that the school’s reported proficiency rates exceeded state rates by more than 36 percentage points in both subjects.
North Smithfield Elementary is both the only school in this ZIP-code list and its standout, so there is no local top-to-bottom comparison. SchoolDigger ranked it 5th of 163 Rhode Island elementary schools in 2025–26, placing it at the 97th percentile with five stars. It also performed above district rates: ELA was 9.1 percentage points higher than the district’s 60.4%, and math was 8.3 points higher than the district’s 60.3%. Results were above state rates in grades 3 and 4 as well; the school’s largest listed grade-level gap was grade 3 ELA, at 76.8% versus 38.5% statewide.
ELA improved much more than math between the two reported years, while both subjects rose: ELA increased 15.1 percentage points, from 54.4% in 2024–25 to 69.5% in 2025–26, and math increased 2.4 points, from 66.2% to 68.6%. That change reversed the subject ordering: math had led ELA by 11.8 points in 2024–25, but ELA was 0.9 points higher in 2025–26. SchoolDigger’s rank also moved up from 27th in 2023–24 to 18th in 2024–25 and 5th in 2025–26. Reported context includes a student–teacher ratio of 13.8 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 24.53%; these figures describe the school, not the cause of its results. Because only one school is listed, the figures do not support comparisons among schools in the ZIP code.
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