Summary:
ZIP code 02916 has one listed school, Myron J. Francis Elementary, a K–5 school with 391 students in the East Providence district. Its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency rates were 55.7% in English language arts (ELA), 58.0% in mathematics, and 62.7% in science. The school was above Rhode Island’s rates in every subject, with the largest lead in science: 31.6 percentage points, compared with 26.1 in math and 22.6 in ELA. The most important takeaway is that the school’s overall results exceed state and district results across all three subjects.
Science is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state, while ELA is its lowest all-grades result; there are no other listed schools to rank against it. Results also vary substantially by grade, with fourth grade the clearest area of weakness. Grade 4 ELA proficiency was 39.7%, versus 61.3% in grade 3 and 65.7% in grade 5; grade 4 math was 45.3%, versus 69.4% in grade 3 and 59.7% in grade 5. Even so, grade 4 was above the state in both subjects, by 7.3 points in ELA and 10.2 points in math. Fifth-grade science was 62.7%, 30.1 points above the state.
Recent results are mixed rather than steadily improving: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA rose 3.3 points and science rose 12.0, while math fell 10.8 points; the average of the three subject rates edged up 1.5 points. SchoolDigger gives Myron J. Francis Elementary 4 stars and a 2025–26 rank of 22nd among 163 Rhode Island elementary schools, in the 87th percentile, down from 16th of 166 and the 90th percentile in 2024–25. The reported student–teacher ratio is 15.6, and 35.81% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch; these figures provide context, not an explanation for the results. With just one school listed, the data cannot support local school-to-school comparisons.
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