The Cranston district seems to be economically better off than some of the other communities in Rhode Island. The average family income in Cranston is $34,528, which is higher than the statewide average family income of $32,181. They have a higher family income and a lower percentage of children in poverty, 9.5%, than the statewide of 13.5% in poverty. This school however, even though the average family income is higher than the states average, the city of Cranston spends less money of their students. Compared to the state average of $8995 per student, the city of Cranston gives $7972 per student. This is over $1000 that the school spends on each student that attends there.

The Education in Cranston seems to have some better numbers than the statewide numbe

Compared to students who met the standards around the state this school did pretty well. For the math sections compared to the state this school is above the average of all the schools in each of the math sections. However, in the English and Language arts they were even with the state averages for Reading and basic Understanding, Reading: Analysis and interpretation, and writing conventions, but in the writing effectiveness they scored way below the state average who met the standard (Infoworks 2002).

rs I found on the kidscount web site. Twenty one percent of the students are enrolled in special education, which is the same percentage for the state of Rhode Island. They also have a higher percentage of fourth-grade students who scored at or above the proficiency level for reading in the New Standards English Language Arts Reference Exam Basic Understanding/ Analysis and Interpretation. Their numbers were much better than the states. Cranston’s numbers were 85%/74% compared to the Rhode Island numbers of 71%/57%. This shows that the elementary schools in Rhode Island are meeting and exceeding the standards. Another fact that I found impressive was the fact that Cranston has more high performing schools that the state. Half of the schools in the Cranston district have more than half of their students scoring at of above the standards on standardized exams compared to the 35% of schools in Rhode Island. There is one fact that is disturbing, teens that are not in school and not working is at 12.1% compared to the state percentage of 8.1%. This could show that some students after high school are not doing anything with themselves (Kidscount 2002).

After reading the student reports I found that most of the responses ended in a “Sometimes” and “Hardly ever” most of the time. These dealt with all the different questions on how teachers teach, students’ expectations, activities involved with the community, etc. Althoug

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