Summary:
Exeter, Rhode Island, has two listed elementary schools: Wawaloam School serves kindergarten and grade 1, while Metcalf School serves grades 2–6; both are part of the Exeter-West Greenwich district. The strongest available picture is of Metcalf: in 2025–2026, its proficiency was 49.9% in English language arts (ELA), 46.7% in math, and 45.2% in science. The most important finding is that Metcalf was above the state in all three subjects, by 16.8, 14.8, and 14.1 percentage points, respectively.
Metcalf stands out in the reported results, but the available figures do not establish a top or bottom school because Wawaloam has no test scores in the supplied data. Compared with district results, Metcalf was slightly lower in ELA (49.9% versus 51.3%) and science (45.2% versus 49.4%), but higher in math (46.7% versus 45.0%). Its strongest grade-level advantages over the state were grade 4 ELA, at 21.0 points, and grade 3 math, at 19.6 points; grade 5 had the smallest gaps in both subjects.
Metcalf improved in all three reported subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 5.4 points, math 2.1, and science 5.8. It also gained ground on the district in each subject, though it remained below the district in ELA and science. SchoolDigger ranked Metcalf 31st of 163 schools in 2025–2026, at the 81st percentile, following a dip to 51st of 166 the year before; the district ranked 12th of 61 and had four stars. The schools’ reported student-teacher ratios are nearly alike—12.7 at Metcalf and 12.6 at Wawaloam—while free/reduced-lunch rates are 25.1% and 19.53%, respectively; these figures provide context but do not show which school performs better.
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