Summary:
Saunderstown, Rhode Island, has one listed school, Kingston Hill Academy, an elementary school serving kindergarten through grade 5; the proficiency results cover grades 3–5. With no other local school to compare, its results are the only picture of school performance in this list. The most important finding for parents is that its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency rates were well above Rhode Island’s in all three reported subjects: 65.9% in English language arts (ELA), 72.2% in math, and 78.9% in science, exceeding state rates by 32.8, 40.3, and 47.8 percentage points, respectively.
Kingston Hill Academy is technically both the highest- and lowest-performing school in the local list because it is the only one; that is not a meaningful school-to-school ranking. Within its grade-level results, grade 4 stands out in ELA and math, with 74.4% and 81.4% proficient. Grade 3 is the lower point in both subjects, at 57.8% in ELA and 64.4% in math, but still exceeds the matching state rates by 19.3 and 27.3 points. Grade 5 science was 78.9%, compared with 32.6% statewide. These differences show variation across grades, not which school a parent should choose locally.
Recent results improved in math and science, while ELA dipped slightly: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, math rose 6.9 percentage points, from 65.3% to 72.2%, and science rose 15.3 points, from 63.6% to 78.9%; ELA fell 1.0 point, from 66.9% to 65.9%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also moved up, from 22nd of 166 schools in 2023–24 to 14th of 166 in 2024–25 and 7th of 163 in 2025–26. The school reports 260 students, a 12.3 student–teacher ratio, an 18.85% free/reduced-lunch rate for 2024–25, and $16,627 in spending per student. These figures provide context, but with only one school listed, they cannot be compared with other local schools.
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