Public school / Primary
Sarah Dyer Barnes School
Johnston, Rhode Island
- NCES ID
- 440054000130
- District
- Johnston
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Sarah Dyer Barnes School is a public primary school in Johnston, Rhode Island, run by Johnston. It enrols 284 students — the 67841st largest of 317 public schools in Rhode Island.
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
284
Teachers
26.0
Students per teacher
10.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
39.8%
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.
Within Johnston
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.
- 1Johnston Senior High804 students
- 2Nicholas A. Ferri Middle761 students
- 3Winsor Hill School384 students
- 4Thornton School335 students
- 5Sarah Dyer Barnes School284 students
- 6Brown Avenue School210 students
- 7Early Childhood Center195 students
- 8Graniteville School121 students
- Enrollment−24.5%
- Teachers−3.7%
- Students per teacher−16.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−4.3%
Where this sits
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