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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Raymond Laperche School

Smithfield, Rhode Island

NCES ID
440099000257
District
Smithfield
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Raymond Laperche School is a public primary school in Smithfield, Rhode Island, run by Smithfield. It enrols 330 students — the 61358th largest of 317 public schools in Rhode Island.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

330students

61358th nationally, tied with 142

Teachers

25.0FTE

53124th nationally, tied with 2,399

Students per teacher

13.2students

30273rd nationally, tied with 865

Free or reduced-price lunch

9.4%percent

83495th nationally, tied with 45

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Smithfield

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Smithfield High School772 students
  2. 2Vincent J. Gallagher Middle537 students
  3. 3Pleasant View Elementary Schoo533 students
  4. 4Raymond Laperche School330 students
  5. 5Old County Road School229 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Rhode Island median across 317 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−12.2%
  • Teachers−7.4%
  • Students per teacher+0.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−77.4%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.