North Kingstown School Department
The September 22 agenda scheduled a discussion of deficiencies in North Kingstown High School’s tennis courts and a plan to address them.
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On July 16, 2026 the committee voted 4-0 to advertise a request for proposals to renovate four restrooms at Smithfield High School, with the work to be finished by February 2027 and done after school hours. In June the facilities director said the architects could not be given a cost proposal because the $800,000 of capital funding had not been formally approved by the Town Council. Restroom renovations are the first items in the district's five-year state building plan, and the closure of high school bathrooms was raised by a committee member in January.
The building committee moved to have its project managers, Colliers, submit the Forest Avenue school's schematic design to the Rhode Island Department of Education as a Stage III package. Stage III is the point at which the state signs off on a design and the reimbursement that goes with it. Forest Avenue is the third project in Middletown's programme, after the new middle-high school and the conversion of the current high school into an elementary school, and it is the one the building committee earmarked a $629,008 funding surplus for.
Woonsocket Education Department
On July 15, 2026 the school committee voted 5-0 to reorganise every grade below high school. Kevin K. Coleman, Globe Park and Bernon Heights elementary schools will close. Pothier and the new George T. Nasuti Elementary School become pre-kindergarten to grade 4 schools, and Harris and Savoie will serve kindergarten to grade 4. Hamlet Middle School becomes an upper elementary school for grades 5 and 6, run on an elementary model, and Villa Nova Middle School takes grades 7 and 8. The high school is unchanged. The changes follow the opening of the new Nasuti school and take effect for 2027-28.
On July 14, 2026 the committee unanimously passed a resolution requesting a redistricting analysis, following a May 12 resolution to evaluate redistricting and a programmatic audit. The May 6 budget forum recorded declining in-district enrollment, with roughly 195 students attending other public districts, about 200 at charter schools and about 140 in special education placements, and nearly $17.5 million budgeted for out-of-district tuition. Residents at the July meeting were already naming schools they had heard might close.
Foster-Glocester Regional School District
The School Committee approved bids to replace water heaters at Ponaganset Middle School and Ponaganset High School, including a $428,140 award to Phalanx, and commissioned a concept-level options evaluation from Alliance Environmental Group. The work follows architectural and engineering fees the committee approved in September 2025 for the water heaters and a middle school boiler, capped at $15,800, $14,500 and $45,000 respectively.
Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy
The June 22, 2026 board agenda lists a resolution authorising the chief executive and chief operations and people officer to run a selection process and sign a contract with an owner's property manager to develop a five-year capital improvement plan. A separate executive session item would authorise the executive team to engage a broker for the sale of property, with any actual sale still needing final board approval. No minutes have been filed, so neither has been confirmed as adopted.
A section of flooring at Hopkins Hill Elementary contains asbestos tiles that have begun to deteriorate as the protective wax breaks down. The district applied to the Rhode Island Department of Health and the committee approved replacing the floor using bond money. At the same meeting it approved repaving the Hopkins Hill blacktop, which fifth graders had written to the superintendent asking for. In May the committee had already approved replacing the fire alarm panels at Hopkins Hill and Tiogue elementary schools, which the superintendent called a safety issue.
The School Committee voted to move $400,000 out of the capital reserve fund to give Sowams and Primrose Hill children somewhere to play during construction. The money splits into $140,000 of playground equipment and $40,000 of swings for each school plus $20,000 at each school to move existing equipment. Parents had raised the loss of safe outdoor play areas and gym space with the committee since the project was first presented in September 2025.
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