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Public school / Primary

Sowams Elementary School

Barrington, Rhode Island

NCES ID
440003000005
District
Barrington
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Sowams Elementary School is a public primary school in Barrington, Rhode Island, run by Barrington. It enrols 257 students — the 71391st 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

257students

71391st nationally, tied with 134

Teachers

16.0FTE

73651st nationally, tied with 1,867

Students per teacher

16.1students

57569th nationally, tied with 803

Free or reduced-price lunch

6.6%percent

84678th nationally, tied with 34

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 Barrington

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. 1Barrington High School1,139 students
  2. 2Barrington Middle School789 students
  3. 3Hampden Meadows School484 students
  4. 4Primrose Hill School375 students
  5. 5Nayatt School338 students
  6. 6Sowams Elementary School257 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−31.6%
  • Teachers−40.7%
  • Students per teacher+22.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−84.1%
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Where this sits

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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.