Summary:
Middletown, Rhode Island, has five public schools: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving students from elementary grades through high school. In the reported 2025–26 results, several schools are above state proficiency figures, but results vary by school and grade. The clearest same-grade comparison is in grade 3: Aquidneck School leads Forest Avenue School by 16.7 percentage points in ELA and 20.9 points in math—making Aquidneck the strongest standout in that direct local comparison.
Gaudet Learning Academy stands out for being above state proficiency in all three reported subjects: 47.8% in ELA, 42.1% in math and 41.7% in science, compared with state figures of 33.1%, 31.9% and 31.1%. Gaudet Middle School has the most notable grade-to-grade contrast: grade 8 math is 50.7%, 20.5 points above the state, while grade 7 math is 21.1%, 6.8 points below. Its all-grades ELA result, 32.7%, is also just below the state’s 33.1%. At Middletown High School, grade 11 SAT ELA and math are above state figures, and the 94.9% graduation rate exceeds the state rate of 85.5%.
Recent changes are mixed rather than pointing to one area-wide trend. At Middletown High, SAT ELA proficiency fell 7.0 points and math fell 2.7 points from the prior year, narrowing the school’s advantages over the state; PSAT math, by contrast, rose 9.1 points to 32.1%, moving above the state. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking percentile rose from 63 to 90 for Aquidneck and from 51 to 65 for Forest Avenue between 2023–24 and 2025–26, while Gaudet Middle’s fell from 67 to 57 and Middletown High’s from 70 to 66. Aquidneck and Forest have similar enrollment and student–teacher ratios (302 and 304 students; ratios of 12.5 and 12.1), but different grade 3 results; their reported free/reduced-lunch rates are 28.15% and 35.86%, respectively, as context rather than an explanation. These figures summarize different grades and tests, so same-grade comparisons are the most useful for choosing between schools.
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