Cranston School District

Cranston School District is a school district located in Cranston, Rhode Island, USA, which services an approximate student population of 11,155 in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. With 790 full-time classroom teachers, the district's overall student/teacher ratio is 14.1:1. There are 24 schools associated with the agency, which is classified as being in or near a mid-sized city (Cranston, RI). Cranston School District allocates approximately $5,572 per pupil for instructional expenses.

Educational facilities that are a part of this agency (district). There are 23 schools listed below. Click on a school's name to find information about that school.

Primary schools

Arlington School
Chester W. Barrows School
Daniel D. Waterman School
Eden Park School
Edward S. Rhodes School
George J. Peters School
Gladstone Street School
Glen Hills School
Hope Highlands Elementary
Stadium School
Stone Hill School
W. R. Dutemple School
Edgewood Highland
Garden City School
Oak Lawn School
Woodridge School
Orchard Farms School

Middle schools

Hugh B. Bain Middle School (Named a High Performing School in 2007)
Park View Middle School
Western Hills Middle School

High schools

Cranston High School East
Cranston High School West
Cranston Area Career & Technical Center

Lawsuits

A Rhode Island Superior Court has dismissed Cranston School District’s suit claiming the City of Cranston failed to fund the district’s schools adequately. The district claimed that its $105.7 million budget was inadequate, necessitating the elimination of extracurricular programs such as music, arts, and sports. The district asked the court to order an additional appropriation for the city’s schools. The court rejected the district’s claim, concluding that it had failed to demonstrate that the school district "lacks the ability to adequately run the schools for that school year with a balanced budget." On the contrary, the court found that the evidence demonstrated that the city has provided adequate funding.

The display of a banner with a school prayer in a school lead to a federal lawsuit in 2011. In Ahlquist v. Cranston, the court found the banner to be unconstitutional.^[1]