Fallon Memorial School

Fallon Memorial School operates as a substantial elementary school in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, overseen by Pawtucket. Current enrollment sits at 520 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 57% larger than the state mean of about 332.

Within Pawtucket, which oversees 16 schools and 7,708 students, Fallon Memorial School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Fallon Memorial School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% White, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Providence County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.6:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Providence County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Providence County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $78,787 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Fallon Memorial School is one of 206 public schools in Providence County (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students).

The closest other public school is Joseph Jenks Middle School, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fallon Memorial School.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fallon Memorial School's enrollment has shrank 10% since 2018, when it stood at 579 (now 520). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 42% to 25%.

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