Public school / High
William E. Tolman High
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
- NCES ID
- 440084000202
- District
- Pawtucket
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
William E. Tolman High is a public high school in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, run by Pawtucket. It enrols 1,056 students — the 7687th 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
1,056
Teachers
74.0
Students per teacher
14.3
Free or reduced-price lunch
52.5%
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 Pawtucket
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.
- 1William E. Tolman High1,056 students
- 2Charles E. Shea High School870 students
- 3Lyman B. Goff Middle School642 students
- 4Samuel Slater Middle School631 students
- 5Joseph Jenks Middle School622 students
- 6Fallon Memorial School566 students
- 7Henry J. Winters School513 students
- 8Potter-Burns School437 students
- Enrollment+180.9%
- Teachers+174.1%
- Students per teacher+9.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+26.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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