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Block Island, Rhode Island - 1 schools
At $45,147 per pupil, New Shoreham ranks #1 of 60 Rhode Island districts by per-pupil spending (Rhode Island districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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Total Enrollment
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$45,147
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District-Level NCES Analysis
New Shoreham operates 1 public schools serving 131 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Rhode Island. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Washington County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $45,147 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 6 of 60 Rhode Island districts by per-pupil spending. See how Rhode Island compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 83.6% local, 12.3% state, and 4.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (4 AP courses district-wide), and 36.5% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 66.7% White, 29.4% Hispanic or Latino, 0.8% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Block Island School, enrolling 126 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Block Island School accounts for 96.2% of all New Shoreham student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of New Shoreham a distant remainder — means New Shoreham-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
New Shoreham chronic absenteeism rate is 36.5% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.