Best Public Schools in Coventry, RI

Coventry, Rhode Island, has seven public schools: five elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving students from elementary grades through grade 12. The five elementary schools average above Rhode Island in all three reported subjects, but school results differ substantially; the most important difference is in math, where the gap between the highest- and lowest-scoring elementary schools is 36.7 percentage points.

Washington Oak School stands out most: it led Coventry’s elementary schools in ELA (53.4%), math (59.4%) and science (62.9%), and SchoolDigger ranked it 19th of 163 Rhode Island elementary schools, in the 88th percentile with four stars. At the other end, Hopkins Hill School had the lowest elementary ELA (30.1%) and math (22.7%); its math score was 9.2 points below the state rate. Its science score, however, was 7.7 points above state, illustrating that a school’s results can differ by subject. Blackrock School was another mixed case: slightly above state in ELA and math but below in science. The middle school exceeded state in all-grades ELA, math and science, while Coventry High School scored above state on SAT ELA and math and PSAT ELA, but just below state on PSAT math.

Recent elementary results are mixed rather than uniformly improving: the five-school average rose 0.8 points in ELA and 4.9 in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while falling 5.7 in math. The largest shifts were at Hopkins Hill, where math fell 11.6 points and science rose 9.5, and at Tiogue School, where science rose 8.7 points. SchoolDigger’s rankings also show different trajectories: Washington Oak remained highly placed, while Hopkins Hill’s statewide percentile fell from 63 to 37 over three years. Enrollment context does not neatly explain the score ordering: Washington Oak had the highest student-teacher ratio among the elementary schools (16.5) and the strongest scores, while the reported free/reduced-lunch rates ranged from 25.59% at Washington Oak to 55.28% at Blackrock. These figures are context, not an explanation of results.