Narragansett

The Narragansett district serves about 1,439 students across three schools: Templeton Elementary School (PK–4, 581 students), Narragansett Middle (5–7, 366 students), and Narragansett Regional High (8–12, 492 students). There is no alternative school. Overall the district ranks 280th of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 20th percentile, with 1 star — placing it in the bottom fifth of the state.

The clearest bright spot is Templeton Elementary, the only school with a clearly positive trajectory. Its rank percentile climbed from 26th to 31st to 41st over three years, and all-grade math proficiency of 40.20% is far above the district's 27.42% and close to the state's 41.11%. Third-grade math (43.30%) beats the state (42.19%), though 4th-grade ELA (29.41%) falls well below the state's 37.43%. Narragansett Regional High is a contrast: its 92.0% graduation rate is above the district's 90.9%, but all-grade math is only 10.62% against the state's 41.11%, and its rank percentile fell from 46th to 25th, dropping from 2 stars to 1. Narragansett Middle sits between them — science (34.31%) is above the district but below the state, ELA improved from 25.99% to 31.63%, while math stays low at 26.28%.

District-wide, proficiency falls as grade level rises: math drops from 40.20% in elementary school to 26.28% in middle school to 10.62% in high school, and ELA follows the same pattern more gently. Math is the widest gap from the state (13.69 points), ahead of ELA (8.81) and science (8.10). Spending and class size do not track simply with results: the high school spends the most per student ($16,029) and has the smallest classes (12.2 students per teacher) yet posts the weakest math scores, while the elementary school spends the least ($13,571) and performs best. Note two limitations: free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all three schools, and the high school covers grades 8–12, so its all-grade scores mirror its 8th-grade results.