Best Cities in Rhode Island for Schools

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Rank (of 49)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2026)	Rank (2025)	Rank change from 2025
1^st	Little Compton	1	0	0	0	1	0.969	1
2^nd	Jamestown	1	1	0	0	0	0.965	2
3^rd	Saunderstown	1	0	0	0	0	0.957	4	1
4^th	Barrington	4	1	1	0	5	0.949	9	5
5^th	East Greenwich	4	1	1	0	8	0.926	5
6^th	North Smithfield	1	1	1	0	0	0.926	8	2
7^th	Portsmouth	2	1	1	0	5	0.889	6	1
8^th	Narragansett	1	1	1	0	3	0.873	10	2
9^th	Wakefield	1	1	1	0	2	0.871	15	6
10^th	Rumford	1	0	0	0	2	0.865	7	3
11^th	Peace Dale	1	0	0	0	0	0.84	14	3
12^th	Bristol	2	0	1	0	1	0.84	16	4
13^th	North Kingstown	5	2	1	0	2	0.839	13
14^th	West Kingston	1	0	0	0	1	0.834	20	6
15^th	Wood River Junction	0	1	2	1	0	0.822	34	19
16^th	Kingston	1	0	0	0	0	0.81	12	4
17^th	Exeter	2	0	0	0	1	0.81	27	10
18^th	Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0.785	21	3
19^th	Smithfield	3	1	1	0	3	0.76	18	1
20^th	Hope	1	0	0	0	0	0.755	30	10
21^st	Lincoln	3	2	2	0	1	0.753	19	2
22^nd	West Greenwich	0	1	2	0	1	0.735	24	2
23^rd	Westerly	3	1	1	0	1	0.73	28	5
24^th	Ashaway	1	0	0	0	0	0.73	3	21
25^th	Tiverton	2	1	1	0	0	0.724	17	8
26^th	Cumberland	8	2	2	0	1	0.696	29	3
27^th	Middletown	3	1	1	0	2	0.695	26	1
28^th	Chepachet	1	0	0	0	1	0.687	11	17
29^th	North Scituate	2	2	2	0	0	0.675	25	4
30^th	Clayville	1	0	0	0	0	0.669	31	1
31^st	Coventry	5	1	2	0	3	0.623	32	1
32^nd	Pascoag	1	0	0	0	1	0.62	33	1
33^rd	Manville	1	0	0	0	0	0.613	35	2
34^th	Charlestown	1	0	0	0	0	0.558	23	11
35^th	Warwick	13	2	3	0	10	0.516	37	2
36^th	Riverside	1	1	0	0	1	0.51	39	3
37^th	East Providence	5	1	2	0	4	0.473	36	1
38^th	Warren	1	1	1	0	1	0.467	41	3
39^th	Cranston	15	5	5	0	6	0.448	40	1
40^th	Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0.436	42	2
41^st	North Providence	5	3	1	0	1	0.433	43	2
42^nd	Harrisville	2	1	1	0	0	0.419	38	4
43^rd	Johnston	5	1	1	0	1	0.31	44	1
44^th	Pawtucket	11	3	4	0	7	0.27	45	1
45^th	West Warwick	3	1	1	0	3	0.252	48	3
46^th	Providence	28	10	20	1	31	0.251	46
47^th	Central Falls	5	3	1	0	0	0.22	49	2
48^th	Newport	1	1	2	0	1	0.197	47	1
49^th	Woonsocket	7	3	3	0	7	0.173	50	1

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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 9, 2026, 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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