Gladstone Street School

Located at 50 Gladstone Street, in Cranston, Rhode Island, Gladstone Street School is an average-sized elementary school that hosts 402 students (grades K through 5), operated by Cranston. By comparison, Rhode Island's public schools average about 332 students each, so Gladstone Street School sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Cranston, which oversees 22 schools and 9,861 students, Gladstone Street School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Gladstone Street School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest looks like 7% Asian, 7% White, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Providence County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Gladstone Street School reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.6:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Providence County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Providence County) reports that median household earnings sit near $78,787, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Providence County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), of which Gladstone Street School is one.

Arlington School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gladstone Street School.

Gladstone Street School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Gladstone Street School's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 521 (now 402). Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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