Fogarty Memorial

Fogarty Memorial is an average-sized primary school in North Scituate, Rhode Island, part of Glocester. The school hosts 318 students in grades K through 5.

Glocester comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 561 students; Fogarty Memorial is among them.

In terms of who attends, Fogarty Memorial lists that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Providence County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 18% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Providence County's rate of about 64%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Providence County shows median household earnings sit near $78,787, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Providence County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), of which Fogarty Memorial is one.

The closest other public school is Ponaganset Middle School, roughly 2.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Fogarty Memorial's enrollment has ticked up 5% since 2018, when it stood at 302 (now 318). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 2% to 6%. Class-load math has widened: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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