NCES CCD 2024-25 25 schools RI

Best-Resourced Schools in Cranston, RI

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25 public K-12 schools in Cranston from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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25
Schools
10,949
Students
38.6/100
Avg Resource Index
13.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Cranston has more public-school enrollment than 83% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Cranston sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

13 of Cranston's 25 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 4 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 37-point gap between Cranston Early Learning Center and Edgewood Highland shows the range hidden by Cranston's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 17%
School count
Top 11%
Resource Index average
39th percentile
Teacher staffing
68th percentile

Cranston High School West accounts for 15.1% of all Cranston public-school enrollment

That concentration means Cranston-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cranston school enrollment varies 34× across entities

Cranston school enrollment ranges from 49 students (lowest) to 1,653 students (highest), a spread of 1,604 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Cranston student-teacher ratio is 13.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

3 of Cranston's 25 listed schools are charters

12% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Cranston Early Learning Center 62
2. Nel/Cps Construction Career 54
3. Oak Lawn School 53
4. Orchard Farms El. School 47
5. Park View Middle School 44
6. Hugh B. Bain Middle School 44
7. Edward S. Rhodes School 44
8. Woodridge School 44
9. Cranston High School West 43
10. Arlington School 41
11. Daniel D. Waterman School 40
12. Western Hills Middle School 39
13. Hope Highlands Middle School 39
14. Gladstone Street School 36
15. Stone Hill School 36
16. Garden City School 35
17. W. R. Dutemple School 35
18. Glen Hills School 34
19. Cranston High School East 32
20. Eden Park School 31
21. Stadium School 30
22. Achievement First Iluminar 26
23. Af Iluminar Mayoral Middle Sch 26
24. George J. Peters School 26
25. Edgewood Highland 25

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Cranston

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Park View Middle School 70.2/100
  2. 2 Eden Park School 68.6/100
  3. 3 Stadium School 67.9/100
  4. 4 Edward S. Rhodes School 67.1/100
  5. 5 W. R. Dutemple School 66.9/100

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Which Cranston school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cranston Early Learning Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Cranston schools in this federal-data comparison at 62/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Cranston, RI? ▼

Cranston has 25 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,949 students. 3 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.9:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.