Summary:
Zip code 01436 has just one middle school, Narragansett Middle, in Baldwinville, Massachusetts — a grades 5–7 school with 366 students in the Narragansett district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, parents should judge it on its own trends: subject-by-subject, grade-by-grade, and year over year.
The good news is that English language arts and science both improved notably. ELA proficiency rose from 25.99% to 31.63%, a 5.64-point gain, and science rose from 29.20% to 34.31%, a 5.11-point gain — both improvements that outpaced the district and came while state scores dipped slightly in those subjects. Science (34.31%) is the school's relative strength, ahead of the district's 32.88%, though still 6.67 points below the state. Fifth grade is the strongest grade level, with ELA at 35.29% — only 2.86 points below the state — and the best math result in the school at 29.41%. Based on the published rankings, the school has held 2 stars for three years, putting it at the 33rd percentile in 2025–2026 (322nd of 478), compared with the district's 1-star rating, 20th percentile, and 280th-of-351 district rank.
The main concern is math. All-grade math proficiency is 26.28%, which is 14.83 points below the state and 1.14 points below the district, making it the clear weak point. The lowest result is 6th-grade math at 24.32%, which is 18.27 points below the state; 6th grade overall has the lowest ELA and math proficiency of the three grades. One puzzle for parents to keep in mind: even though ELA and science scores improved, the school's relative rank slipped from 297th of 484 at the 39th percentile in 2024–2025 to 322nd of 478 at the 33rd percentile in 2025–2026, suggesting other schools may have improved faster. Other context is limited — the 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch percentage is not reported here, per-student spending of $15,210 is from 2020–2021, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.4.
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