Summary:
Zip code 01436 covers Baldwinville, Massachusetts, and contains two schools serving grades 5 through 12: Narragansett Regional High (grades 8–12, 492 students) and Narragansett Middle (grades 5–7, 366 students), both part of the Narragansett district, which ranks 280th of 351 in Massachusetts, in the 20th percentile with 1 star. No elementary or alternative schools are listed for the area, and free/reduced lunch data is blank for both schools.
Narragansett Middle is the stronger of the two on current academics, ranking 322 of 478 (33rd percentile, 2 stars) compared with the high school's 264 of 353 (25th percentile, 1 star). On 2025–2026 all-grade MCAS, the middle school led in ELA (31.63% vs 27.19%), math (26.28% vs 10.62%), and science (34.31% vs 32.46%). Both schools trail the state in every all-grade subject, but the middle school's gaps are smaller, and it improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025. Its 5th grade ELA score, 35.29% against a state figure of 38.15%, is the closest any reported subject or grade at either school comes to the state average.
The high school's clearest red flag is math: all-grade proficiency fell from 25.21% to 10.62%, and the 8th grade math gap to the state (10.62% vs 41.67%) is the largest single gap in the data, while 10th grade math sits at 26.51% versus 43.73%. Graduation outcomes are comparatively solid, at 92.0% (district 90.9%) with a 4.6% dropout rate (district 4.5%). The high school also has a lower student-teacher ratio (12.2 vs 14.4) and higher per-student spending ($16,029 vs $15,210 in 2020–21), though that spending figure is dated and high school costs are not directly comparable to middle school costs.
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