Rhode Island is among the country’s least rural states, and rural communities are relatively affluent, with challenges that are small compared with other states. Though relatively low in diversity, the percentage of rural special education students is the 11th highest in the nation. Rhode Island’s overall policy context ranks just slightly below the median, but a few outcome indicators rank worse, including proportional spending on transportation to spending on instructional (14th in the nation), the size of rural schools and districts (23rd largest nationally), and revenue inequity among rural school districts in the state (21st nationally). Scores on the National Assessment on Educational Progress and high school graduation rates are well above national figures, ranking Rhode Island 49th in the country in need of rural education attention and improvement.