18 public K-12 schools in Pawtucket from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pawtucket has more public-school enrollment than 76% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pawtucket's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.
Pawtucket's list includes 7 elementary, 3 middle, and 4 high-school campuses, plus 4 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Pawtucket's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 14th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 79th percentile. The 65-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Pawtucket school enrollment ranges from 173 students (lowest) to 995 students (highest), a spread of 822 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. 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
The reported share clears the 50% majority mark. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
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.
11% 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. | Jacqueline M. Walsh School | 46 |
| 2. | Blackstone Academy Charter | 41 |
| 3. | Francis J. Varieur School | 37 |
| 4. | Henry J. Winters School | 34 |
| 5. | Charles E. Shea High School | 33 |
| 6. | Lyman B. Goff Middle School | 31 |
| 7. | Curvin-Mccabe School | 31 |
| 8. | Samuel Slater Middle School | 30 |
| 9. | Potter-Burns School | 29 |
| 10. | William E. Tolman High | 28 |
| 11. | Agnes E. Little School | 28 |
| 12. | Joseph Jenks Middle School | 27 |
| 13. | Fallon Memorial School | 27 |
| 14. | Nathanael Greene School | 27 |
| 15. | Cunningham School | 27 |
| 16. | Elizabeth Baldwin School | 27 |
| 17. | Flora S. Curtis School | 26 |
| 18. | International Charter School | 24 |
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.
Jacqueline M. Walsh School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pawtucket schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Pawtucket has 18 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,442 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 13:1.
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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.
