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Smithfield

Smithfield, Rhode Island · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

2,361
Students enrolled
5
Public schools
187
Classroom teachers (FTE)
12.6:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 59
  • Kindergarten 158
  • Grade 1 162
  • Grade 2 195
  • Grade 3 188
  • Grade 4 183
  • Grade 5 175
  • Grade 6 161
  • Grade 7 153
  • Grade 8 190
  • Grade 9 180
  • Grade 10 155
  • Grade 11 187
  • Grade 12 215

By race/ethnicity

  • White 82%
  • Hispanic/Latino 10%
  • Two or more races 5%
  • Black or African American 2%
  • Asian 2%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

20% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 470 of 2,348 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 17%
  • Reduced-price lunch 3%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$19,498 spent per student on day-to-day operations Rhode Island median: $21,127 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $11,508
  • Support services $7,614
  • Other (food service, etc.) $376

Where the money comes from

  • Local 68%
  • State 26%
  • Federal 6%

Total revenue $51.9 milliontotal spending $52.5 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Large

Total staff (FTE)

349

District office

49 Farnum Pike, Smithfield RI 02917

County

Providence County

Official website

NCES District ID

4400990

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About Smithfield

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

Smithfield School District provides an excellent educational experience for all students thanks to the efforts of our talented, dedicated, and caring staff and our supportive parent community. We take great pride in knowing that every school in the district is high performing and has achieved Annual Yearly Progress with two of our schools regents commended. We have a commitment to hiring highly qualified and credentialed teachers and to providing support and professional development in order to assure top notch student performance results. Our positive partnership with parents, businesses and the community enhances our instructional program and provides an enriched learning environment in which student thrive. A partnership with Dr. Robert Ballard (explorer who discovered the Titanic) and the school of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island has allowed our students to be the first in the world to interact with research scientists all over the world. Through a partnership with Bryant University we were the first district in the United States to establishK-12 afterschool Confucius Classrooms to teach Chinese culture and language.
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