Hope School

Hope School is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in Hope, Rhode Island, part of Scituate, teacheing 163 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 51% below the typical public school in Rhode Island, which averages around 332 students.

Within Scituate, which oversees 5 schools and 1,188 students, Hope School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Hope School shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder is composed of 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 60%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.6:1 average. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Providence County (around 64%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Providence County put median household earnings sit near $78,787, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Providence County runs 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), of which Hope School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Blackrock School, around 1.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hope School has declined 8%, going from 178 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 92% to 97%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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