Summary:
Zip code 02917 in Smithfield, Rhode Island, has three public elementary schools: Pleasant View Elementary School and Old County Road School serve kindergarten through grade 5, while Raymond LaPerche School serves prekindergarten through grade 5. In 2025–26, all three schools scored above state results in English language arts (ELA), mathematics and science. The clearest area-wide strength is mathematics: the schools averaged 50.3%, 18.4 points above the state, compared with an advantage of 13.7 points in ELA and 11.4 in science.
No single school leads in every subject: Pleasant View leads mathematics at 52.7%, 3.55 points above the other two schools’ average, while Old County Road leads ELA at 49.2%, 3.6 points above the others’ average and 16.1 above the state. LaPerche leads science at 44.4%, 2.9 points above the other schools’ average, but has the lowest all-grade ELA (43.4%) and math (47.9%) scores. Overall differences are modest: the gap between the highest and lowest school is 4.8 to 5.8 points across subjects, though grade-specific results vary more. For example, third-grade ELA ranges from 32.7% at LaPerche to 59.2% at Old County Road.
Recent score trends differ by subject: science rose at all three schools from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while ELA fell at all three; LaPerche’s ELA decline was largest, at 15.4 points. The average science score rose 10.4 points, while average ELA fell 7.5 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking history also diverges: Old County Road improved from 75th to 33rd and rose from three to four stars; Pleasant View moved from 38th to 34th, while LaPerche shifted from 31st to 45th. School context varies too: Old County Road has the smallest enrollment (228), lowest student-teacher ratio (10.3) and highest reported free/reduced-lunch rate (34.65%); Pleasant View has the largest enrollment (552), and LaPerche’s ratio is 13.4. These figures describe school-level results and context, not the progress of the same students over time.
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