Park School

Park School is an elementary school of close-knit scale in Warwick, Rhode Island, part of Warwick, educateing 225 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% below the state mean of about 332.

Warwick comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 7,688 students; Park School is among them.

On demographics, Park School shows that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 85%.

On the resource side, On paper, Park School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.8:1. The state averages around 13.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kent County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the area at large, Kent County reports that median household income runs about $94,345, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Kent County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,578 students), Park School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Warwick Veterans Middle School, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park School has showed little movement, going from 222 students in 2018 to 225 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 12% to 1% over that span.

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