Table 22:
Fourth-Grade Reading Scores, Rhode Island, 1995

School District

% Children in Poverty

% Adults Completing High School

Number of Students Enrolled

% Limited English Proficiency

% Minority Enrollment

% of 4th Grade Students at or Above the 40th Percentile in Reading (MAT 1995)

% of 4th Grade Students at or Above the 40th Percentile in Reading (MAT 1994)

Barrington

1.3%

88.9

2,852

NA

3%

85

86

Bristol-Warren

6.6%

NA

3,987

5.1%

2%

65

68

Burrillville

6.1%

70.6

2,958

0.2%

1%

72

82

Central Falls

32.5%

46.9

2,482

29.8%

59%

34

34

Chariho

5.0%

82.2

3,800

0.3%

3%

76

79

Coventry

5.3%

74.4

5,482

0.1%

2%

71

66

Cranston

9.5%

74

10,223

5.5%

11%

73

71

Cumberland

4.7%

74.7

4,604

2.6%

4%

74

75

East Greenwich

5.3%

89.8

2,178

0.7%

4%

91

92

East Providence

8.7%

66.9

6,648

6.6%

12%

58

58

Exeter-W. Greenwich

3.2%

78

1,882

NA

4%

69

63

Foster

7.6%

81.9

391

NA

1%

89

85

Foster-Glocester

6.8%

82.5

1,380

NA

1%

NA

NA

Glocester

6.5%

82.8

877

NA

2%

83

81

Jamestown

8.1%

89

633

NA

2%

78

92

Johnston

8.4%

66.8

3,277

0.9%

4%

70

67

Lincoln

7.0%

76.1

3,141

0.5%

4%

73

78

Little Compton

2.7%

86

372

NA

0%

76

69

Middletown

6.0%

85

2,760

1.5%

12%

67

71

Narragansett

4.5%

87.2

1,926

1.1%

4%

79

75

Newport

20.3%

84.1

3,052

1.0%

26%

78

57

New Shoreham

10.1%

94

114

NA

4%

55

88

North Kingstown

4.7%

86.2

4,310

1.3%

5%

80

82

North Providence

5.4%

70.8

3,570

3.0%

8%

62

65

North Smithfield

1.6%

71.5

1,698

NA

2%

81

89

Pawtucket

15.5%

61.6

9,394

11.0%

30%

46

50

Portsmouth

4.4%

86.3

2,686

NA

3%

85

85

Providence

34.5%

62.8

23,591

19.0%

73%

34

37

Scituate

3.7%

83.8

1,653

NA

2%

73

77

Smithfield

4.1%

80.8

2,684

0.1%

1%

77

90

South Kingstown

7.5%

85.5

3,810

1.2%

9%

75

80

Tiverton

6.4%

70.5

2,126

NA

1%

73

74

Warwick

5.9%

77.8

12,003

0.6%

4%

68

69

Westerly

8.7%

75.6

3,249

1.7%

4%

65

65

West Warwick

11.8%

70.3

3,973

3.5%

8%

68

66

Woonsocket

21.4%

56.2

6,478

4.6%

25%

49

56

Core Cities

27.3%

NA

44,997

14.8%

53%

NA

NA

Remainder of State

6.5%

NA

101,247

1.9%

5%

NA

NA

Rhode Island

13.5%

72

146,244

5.9%

20%

63

65

Percent of children living in poverty and percent of adults completing high school are based on the U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1990 Census of Population.

Percent of 4th grade students meeting a basic standard in reading according to the 1995 Metropolitan Achievement Tests, Rhode Island School Districts, 1995. Core cities are Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls, Woonsocket, and Newport.

NA: Community had a regional high school.

All other data are from the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Reaching for High Standards: Student Performance in Rhode Island, 1996.

Last Update: 5/9/97 by JDC.