Best Cities in Rhode Island for Schools

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Coming soon: This year's test scores are expected from the Rhode Island Department of Education any day now — new rankings will follow the moment they're released!

Rank (of 50)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2025)	Rank (2024)	Rank change from 2024
1^st	Little Compton	1	0	0	0	1	0.989	3	2
2^nd	Jamestown	1	1	0	0	0	0.961	2
3^rd	Ashaway	1	0	0	0	0	0.922	1	2
4^th	Saunderstown	1	0	0	0	0	0.916	12	8
5^th	East Greenwich	4	1	1	0	8	0.913	4	1
6^th	Portsmouth	2	1	1	0	5	0.912	8	2
7^th	Rumford	1	0	0	0	2	0.904	7
8^th	North Smithfield	1	1	1	0	0	0.901	10	2
9^th	Barrington	4	1	1	0	5	0.892	5	4
10^th	Narragansett	1	1	1	0	3	0.887	11	1
11^th	Chepachet	1	0	0	0	1	0.867	6	5
12^th	Kingston	1	0	0	0	0	0.867	13	1
13^th	North Kingstown	5	2	1	0	2	0.832	14	1
14^th	Peace Dale	1	0	0	0	0	0.831	26	12
15^th	Wakefield	1	1	1	0	2	0.809	15
16^th	Bristol	3	0	1	0	1	0.785	16
17^th	Tiverton	3	1	1	0	0	0.773	19	2
18^th	Smithfield	3	1	1	0	2	0.766	24	6
19^th	Lincoln	3	2	2	0	1	0.765	23	4
20^th	West Kingston	1	0	0	0	1	0.753	17	3
21^st	Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0.747	9	12
22^nd	Hope Valley	1	0	0	0	0	0.735	27	5
23^rd	Charlestown	1	0	0	0	0	0.729	25	2
24^th	West Greenwich	1	1	2	0	1	0.727	20	4
25^th	North Scituate	2	2	2	0	0	0.725	22	3
26^th	Middletown	3	1	1	0	2	0.716	31	5
27^th	Exeter	2	0	0	0	1	0.693	18	9
28^th	Westerly	4	1	1	0	1	0.682	32	4
29^th	Cumberland	9	2	2	0	1	0.68	33	4
30^th	Hope	1	0	0	0	0	0.675	36	6
31^st	Clayville	1	0	0	0	0	0.669	21	10
32^nd	Coventry	5	1	2	0	3	0.626	28	4
33^rd	Pascoag	1	0	0	0	1	0.62	34	1
34^th	Wood River Junction	0	1	2	1	0	0.619	30	4
35^th	Manville	1	0	0	0	0	0.572	29	6
36^th	East Providence	5	1	2	0	4	0.48	37	1
37^th	Warwick	14	2	3	0	10	0.474	35	2
38^th	Harrisville	2	1	1	0	0	0.467	39	1
39^th	Riverside	2	1	0	0	1	0.457	38	1
40^th	Cranston	16	5	5	0	4	0.444	42	2
41^st	Warren	1	1	1	0	1	0.441	40	1
42^nd	Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0.428	43	1
43^rd	North Providence	5	3	1	0	1	0.412	41	2
44^th	Johnston	6	1	1	0	1	0.4	44
45^th	Pawtucket	11	3	4	0	6	0.288	45
46^th	Providence	28	11	20	2	30	0.244	47	1
47^th	Newport	1	1	2	0	1	0.237	46	1
48^th	West Warwick	4	1	1	0	2	0.22	48
49^th	Central Falls	6	3	1	0	0	0.207	49
50^th	Woonsocket	7	3	3	0	7	0.175	50

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* Private schools are not used in determining city rank.
Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on test scores released by the Rhode Island Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on October 2, 2025, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Rhode Island Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Rhode Island Department of Education.
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