Charlestown Elementary School

Located at 363 Carolina Back Road, in Charlestown, Rhode Island, Charlestown Elementary School is a close-knit elementary school that works with 246 students (grades K through 4), operated by Chariho. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 332.

Chariho comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,951 students; Charlestown Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charlestown Elementary School logs that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Charlestown Elementary School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Around the school, census data for Washington County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,638 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 38 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,313 students), Charlestown Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chariho High School, around 2.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Charlestown Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 266 (now 246).

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