Rhode Island City Rankings

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*Please note that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on standardized testing and the number of schools reporting results are lower.

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Rank (of 51)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2021)	Rank (2019)	Rank change from 2019
1^st	Jamestown	1	1	0	0	0	0.956	4	3
2^nd	Barrington	4	1	1	0	5	0.947	6	4
3^rd	Clayville	1	0	0	0	0	0.934	9	6
4^th	Saunderstown	1	0	0	0	0	0.928	1	3
5^th	East Greenwich	4	1	1	0	7	0.921	5
6^th	Ashaway	1	0	0	0	0	0.898	2	4
7^th	Chepachet	1	0	0	0	1	0.886	13	6
8^th	Rumford	1	0	0	0	2	0.88	21	13
9^th	Little Compton	1	0	0	0	0	0.879	28	19
10^th	Kingston	1	0	0	0	0	0.868	17	7
11^th	North Kingstown	5	2	1	0	2	0.847	14	3
12^th	Narragansett	1	1	1	0	2	0.843	19	7
13^th	Smithfield	3	1	1	0	1	0.836	26	13
14^th	Portsmouth	2	1	1	0	4	0.829	16	2
15^th	Wakefield	2	2	1	0	2	0.817	10	5
16^th	Charlestown	1	0	0	0	0	0.813	3	13
17^th	North Smithfield	1	1	1	0	0	0.813	11	6
18^th	Greenville	1	0	0	0	2	0.807	22	4
19^th	Bristol	3	0	1	0	1	0.792	12	7
20^th	Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0.789	8	12
21^st	Tiverton	3	1	1	0	0	0.778	27	6
22^nd	Exeter	2	0	0	0	1	0.759	32	10
23^rd	Peace Dale	1	0	0	0	0	0.747	23
24^th	North Scituate	2	2	2	0	0	0.747	24
25^th	Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0.735	37	12
26^th	Hope	1	0	0	0	0	0.699	31	5
27^th	Lincoln	3	2	2	0	1	0.695	29	2
28^th	West Greenwich	1	1	2	0	0	0.676	18	10
29^th	Cumberland	9	2	2	0	1	0.668	25	4
30^th	Hope Valley	1	0	0	0	0	0.651	7	23
31^st	Coventry	5	1	1	1	3	0.65	33	2
32^nd	Middletown	3	1	1	0	2	0.613	36	4
33^rd	Westerly	4	1	1	0	1	0.607	30	3
34^th	Manville	1	0	0	0	0	0.56	20	14
35^th	Wood River Junction	0	1	2	1	0	0.557	15	20
36^th	West Kingston	1	0	0	0	1	0.554	34	2
37^th	Riverside	2	1	0	0	1	0.501	38	1
38^th	North Providence	5	2	1	0	1	0.494	39	1
39^th	Warwick	14	2	3	0	9	0.494	40	1
40^th	Harrisville	2	1	1	0	0	0.447	45	5
41^st	Cranston	17	5	5	0	2	0.445	35	6
42^nd	Johnston	6	1	1	0	1	0.432	42
43^rd	Pascoag	1	0	0	0	1	0.41	44	1
44^th	Warren	1	1	1	0	1	0.402	41	3
45^th	East Providence	6	1	2	0	4	0.39	43	2
46^th	Newport	1	1	2	0	1	0.274	46
47^th	West Warwick	4	1	1	0	2	0.269	49	2
48^th	Pawtucket	11	3	4	0	6	0.259	48
49^th	Woonsocket	6	4	3	0	7	0.256	50	1
50^th	Central Falls	5	3	1	0	0	0.208	47	3
51^st	Providence	30	10	17	1	28	0.195	51

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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 28, 2021, 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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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Rhode Island Department of Education. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.