The top reported proficiency rate is 12% in Science. The lowest is 10% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Globe Park School
Globe Park School is a regular public elementary school in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade. It sits on Avenue A in a compact, traditionally built city along the Blackstone River, part of the Woonsocket school district. The school is one of several elementary campuses serving families across the city, and its enrollment is moderate for an elementary school in this grade band.
The student body reflects Woonsocket's working-class and increasingly diverse composition. White students make up about half the enrollment, with Hispanic students the next largest group and a smaller Black population, plus a handful of Asian and multiracial students. Roughly half the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which gives a sense of the economic pressures many families face. Data on English learners and special education enrollment was not available, so those profiles remain unclear. A parent may want to ask the school directly about the supports in place for multilingual learners and students with disabilities, since the figures that would describe those populations are missing from what we reviewed.
On state assessments, Globe Park's results are low. The most recent RICAS results show proficiency rates in the low teens for both English language arts and math across the tested grades. Fifth-grade science results on the NGSA assessment are similar. Participation was essentially full, so the scores reflect nearly all eligible students. These are plainly weak numbers, and a parent weighing this school should treat them as a signal to ask hard questions about what the school is doing to improve instruction, how interventions are structured, and what the district's plan looks like. Only one year of data was available, so there is no trend to assess whether performance is improving, holding steady, or slipping. That absence of trend data itself limits any read on direction.
Woonsocket as a community shapes the context around Globe Park in ways worth understanding. The city has deep roots as a textile mill center along the Blackstone River and a strong French-Canadian heritage that remains part of its identity. Its two dominant employers today are CVS Health, which has its corporate headquarters here, and Landmark Medical Center. These anchor a local economy that blends corporate, healthcare, and working-class residential neighborhoods. The city is compact, built on a traditional New England grid with Main Street as its commercial spine, and the city has invested in street reconstruction and downtown revitalization. It sits within a short drive of Providence and is bordered by growing suburban communities like Lincoln, Cumberland, and North Smithfield.
The housing market in Globe Park's zip code is relatively affordable compared with the statewide benchmark. Typical home values run below the Rhode Island median, and rents are modest. For families, this means the area can offer lower-cost housing than much of the state, though the tradeoff is a community with higher poverty and weaker school performance than many surrounding suburbs. The gap between the estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home and local rent is meaningful, with renting coming in cheaper, which may matter for families deciding whether to buy.
We looked for information on Globe Park's specific programs, staffing ratios, course access, discipline data, and attendance patterns, and none was available in the material reviewed. The same was true for the school's Title I status and any magnet or special designations. The district brief turned up no recently reported parent-relevant changes of lasting impact. These gaps mean the picture is incomplete. A family considering Globe Park would do well to visit, ask about classroom-level supports, and understand how the school communicates progress to parents, since the publicly available data tells only part of the story.
What the data does say is that Globe Park is a neighborhood elementary school serving a diverse, economically mixed student body in an affordable, historically rich small city, with academic results that are currently low and no trend data yet to show whether things are moving in a better direction.
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