Foster-Glocester Regional School District

It never has a ZIP Code to itself

The counts below come from the census blocks assigned to Foster-Glocester Regional, grouped by the ZIP Code area each block falls in. The Census Bureau publishes the blocks; the grouping is computed here, and it is the only place these particular numbers exist.

• Homes inside the boundary6,049
• Residents14,443
• ZIP Code areas it reaches6
• Where it is the only district0
• Where it shares with another district5
• Where it holds under half a percent1
• Land area105 square miles
• Homes per square mile58

The ZIP Code areas it reaches

The spread is the thing to notice. In 02829 this district holds 100% of the homes; in 02859 it holds 2 homes, under half a percent. Same district, opposite answers, and a lookup that names it without the share tells the second household the same thing as the first.

• ZIP Code 02829 · Harmony, Rhode Island100% of the homes
• ZIP Code 02814 · Chepachet, Rhode Island99% of the homes
• ZIP Code 02825 · Foster Center, Rhode Island82% of the homes
• ZIP Code 02857 · Harmony, Rhode Island28% of the homes
• ZIP Code 02828 · Greenville, Rhode Island1.4% of the homes
• ZIP Code 02859 · Pascoag, Rhode Island2 homes, under half a percent

What one name misses, and what changes later

Foster-Glocester Regional is the largest district in 2 ZIP Code areas. Answer with its name alone and the answer misses 39 of the 3,325 homes those areas hold — though in 1 of them it holds every home there is. The count is homes, not addresses, and it is the number no lookup prints.

ZIP Code 02814 · Chepachet, Rhode Island is a two-district area: 3,234 of its 3,273 homes are inside Foster-Glocester Regional, and the other 39 homes are with Smithfield. Which one an address belongs to is settled by the street, not by the five digits.

In ZIP Code 02829 · Harmony, Rhode Island the single-name answer is the true one: Foster-Glocester Regional holds all 52 homes counted there, and no other district holds a share worth naming.

Foster-Glocester Regional reaches into ZIP Code 02825 · Foster Center, Rhode Island with 1,744 of its 2,119 homes; 3 districts there hold a real share of it, and Foster Elementary leads them. The familiar answer for that area is one of the others, and it is wrong for those 1,744 homes.

In ZIP Code 02857 · Harmony, Rhode Island this district is one name among 4. Scituate leads with the largest share and Foster-Glocester Regional holds 976 of the 3,455 homes counted there; no single name describes that area at all.

Foster-Glocester Regional is not the name anyone would give for ZIP Code 02828 · Greenville, Rhode Island — Smithfield leads it — and Foster-Glocester Regional holds 41 homes there all the same. Answer that area with one name and that is what it is wrong about.

The elementary districts that feed it

Students arrive at Foster-Glocester Regional from 6 districts that run the lower grades on the same ground — Glocester Elementary, which sends 58%, Foster Elementary, which sends 24% and Scituate, which sends 17%. Each of those addresses therefore belongs to two districts at once, one for grade school and this one for high school, and neither name is the whole answer.

• Glocester Elementary School District58% of Foster-Glocester Regional's homes come from here
• Foster Elementary School District24% of Foster-Glocester Regional's homes come from here
• Scituate School District17% of Foster-Glocester Regional's homes come from here
• Smithfield School District1.3% of Foster-Glocester Regional's homes come from here
• Burrillville School Districtunder 0.1% of Foster-Glocester Regional's homes come from here
• Johnston School Districtunder 0.1% of Foster-Glocester Regional's homes come from here

The names in this list are exact: the federal file gives the district of each band for every census block. The percentages are not. They spread each shared ZIP Code area's homes across the other band in proportion to the share each district holds there, because the file names the two districts of a block and not how a household moves between them. Read them as the size of the crossing, not as a count of houses.

Who it shares ZIP Codes with

Foster-Glocester Regional appears alongside a mix of district kinds — Glocester Elementary, Foster Elementary, Scituate and Smithfield. Where the kinds differ, the two are not competing for the same address: one takes the lower grades and the other takes high school, and a household may be served by both.

• Glocester Elementary School District4 shared ZIP areas
• Foster Elementary School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Scituate School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Smithfield School District2 shared ZIP areas
• Johnston School District1 shared ZIP area

Where this district sits

• School districts in Rhode Island19 of 81 ZIP areas split
• Every district with a page here260 districts listed

What to do next

Ask the district office to confirm your street address. A district settles that question on its own site: look for a school locator, a find my school tool, or an attendance zone map. Where there is none, ask the office itself.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not a boundary: in 5 of the 6 ZIP Code areas Foster-Glocester Regional reaches, at least one other district holds a real share of the homes as well, and the line between them runs along streets. Only the district can say which side of that line an address is on.

This site links to no district website. None of the federal files it is built from publishes one, and a guessed address is worse than none. It is the district office, not a search engine, that settles an address.

If a house purchase depends on the answer, ask the district itself for written confirmation of that exact address. A listing is not a district record, and neither is this page.

What this cannot tell you

The homes were counted in the 2020 Census and the district lines are the 2026 boundary file. Nothing on this page adjusts one to the other. Where houses have been built or cleared since the count, a share here describes the place as it was counted rather than as it stands today, and in the fastest-growing ZIP Code areas that gap is the largest single source of error on this site.

A share on this page is a share of the homes in the ZIP Code area, not a probability for any particular address. Enrollment is decided by street address, and a district may run magnet, charter or choice programs that ignore the boundary entirely. If a decision depends on the answer, the district office is the only authority; this page shows what the federal boundary files say and when they were published.

A district boundary is not a school attendance zone. This site never says which school an address is assigned to: no current national dataset of attendance zones exists, and the district draws them itself. Nor is anything here endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau; we use their published files, and that is the whole of the relationship.

A ZIP Code is a set of mail delivery routes, not an area. What is mapped here is the Census Bureau's ZIP Code Tabulation Area, the closest published approximation to it. The two are not identical, and a handful of ZIP Codes used only for post office boxes or single buildings have no tabulation area at all.

Where these numbers come from

School district boundaries come from the Census Bureau's Census Geographic Relationship File, current 2026 vintage, which assigns every census block to a unified district or to an elementary and a secondary district. Homes and residents in each block come from the 2020 Census Redistricting Data (PL 94-171), H1_001 and P1_001. The ZIP Code areas come from the same Geographic Relationship File, block to ZIP Code Tabulation Area. District names and grade ranges come from the Census Gazetteer 2025, with 2020 for districts no longer listed.

The place name printed beside a ZIP Code comes from the Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area relationship files: place, county subdivision and county, taken 2026-09-06. It is a label rather than a measurement: the Census Bureau does not publish which post office a ZIP Code belongs to, so the place named is the one covering the most land inside the area, not the city the Postal Service prints on an envelope.

Everything else on this page — the shares, the counts of districts per ZIP, the comparison between the two grade bands, the rankings — is computed here from those files. The source publishes none of it. Snapshot taken 2026-09-03.