Veterans Memorial Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary-level community in Central Falls, Rhode Island, Veterans Memorial Elementary hosts 406 students from grades K through 5, operated by Central Falls. By comparison, Rhode Island's public schools average about 332 students each, so Veterans Memorial Elementary sits 22% above that benchmark.

Veterans Memorial Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Central Falls, a district that works with 2,515 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Veterans Memorial Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% White, 15% Black, 10% Native American, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Providence County as a whole is about 26% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Veterans Memorial Elementary shows 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 13.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 94% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Providence County's rate of about 64%.

In the surrounding community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Providence County's 206 public schools (combined enrollment of about 88,799 students), Veterans Memorial Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Segue Inst for Learning, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Veterans Memorial Elementary's enrollment has shrank 19% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 406). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 59% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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