U.S. school systems/Rhode Island
School systems & governing boards · RI

Rhode Island school systems.

Open the district record people actually need: schools, students, public money, official contacts, and governing people and elections wherever the source layer is live.

36school systems
268operating schools connected
122,128students in finance records
36complete 2019–2024 finance trends
0governance layers connected
What changed from 2019 to 2024?

Rhode Island school finance after inflation.

Follow a consistent set of 36 systems across all six Census years. Dollar changes are converted with the national CPI-U annual average so a nominal increase is not mistaken for a real increase.

Verify the inflation series ↗
2024 median spending / pupil$21,193Median of complete system records
Median change after inflation+3.6%Current spending per pupil · 2024 dollars
Median nominal change+27.1%Before the CPI-U adjustment
Aggregate enrollment change-8.2%Same complete systems in every year
Enrollment in consistently reporting systems36 systems in every year
201920202021202220232024133,091122,128
Current spending per pupil in 2024 dollarsWeighted by the enrollment attached to each spending record
201920202021202220232024$23,945$21,925

School finance: U.S. Census Bureau Annual Survey of School System Finances · inflation adjustment: BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average. This is a purchasing-power comparison, not a performance grade or local cost-of-living estimate.

Useful school-system records

36 systems

Clear filters

Final 2024–25 NCES agency and school directories are joined by exact agency ID. Census school-finance records for 2019–2024 are connected only by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID and remain nominal dollars. Board coverage is added only from an official state or district source.