Summary:
Zip code 02898 has one listed school: Richmond Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 4, with 371 students. Its latest results show stronger proficiency than Rhode Island overall in both reported subjects, and its clearest advantage is in math: 52.0% of students were proficient, compared with 31.9% statewide, a difference of 20.1 percentage points.
There is no within-ZIP-code top or bottom school to compare because only one school is listed. The school stands out favorably against both state and Chariho results: its all-grades ELA proficiency was 47.2%, versus 33.1% statewide and 44.7% districtwide; in math, it was 52.0%, versus 31.9% statewide and 43.9% districtwide. Results were above state and district figures in all four supplied grade-subject comparisons. The largest grade-specific state lead was in grade 4 math, where proficiency was 53.1% versus 35.1%; the smallest was in grade 4 ELA, at 42.3% versus 32.4%.
Recent results show a mixed trend: ELA proficiency fell 8.3 percentage points, from 55.5% in 2024–2025 to 47.2% in 2025–2026, while math rose 3.1 points, from 48.9% to 52.0%. Compared with the district, the ELA lead narrowed from 8.4 to 2.5 points, while the math lead grew from 3.5 to 8.1 points. SchoolDigger gives the school four stars and ranks it 35th of 163 statewide in 2025–2026, at the 79th percentile—an improvement from 42nd and the 75th percentile the prior year, but below its 19th-place, 89th-percentile standing in 2023–2024. Other reported context includes a 13.2 student–teacher ratio and a 31.27% free/reduced-lunch rate, both from 2024–2025; these describe the school but do not establish what drives its results.
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