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Rank (of 51)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2019)	Rank (2018)	Rank change from 2018
1^st	Saunderstown	1	0	0	0	0	0.97	5	4
2^nd	Ashaway	1	0	0	0	0	0.959	4	2
3^rd	Charlestown	1	0	0	0	0	0.953	8	5
4^th	Jamestown	1	1	0	0	0	0.918	3	1
5^th	East Greenwich	4	1	1	0	5	0.917	6	1
6^th	Barrington	4	1	1	0	5	0.912	2	4
7^th	Hope Valley	1	0	0	0	0	0.911	1	6
8^th	Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0.882	24	16
9^th	Clayville	1	0	0	0	0	0.876	14	5
10^th	Wakefield	2	2	1	0	1	0.87	20	10
11^th	North Smithfield	2	1	1	0	0	0.851	10	1
12^th	Bristol	3	0	1	0	1	0.839	9	3
13^th	Chepachet	1	0	0	0	1	0.822	18	5
14^th	North Kingstown	5	2	1	0	2	0.81	17	3
15^th	Wood River Junction	0	1	2	1	0	0.809	16	1
16^th	Portsmouth	2	1	1	0	3	0.808	12	4
17^th	Kingston	1	0	0	0	0	0.802	11	6
18^th	West Greenwich	1	1	2	0	0	0.792	28	10
19^th	Narragansett	1	1	1	0	2	0.774	7	12
20^th	Manville	1	0	0	0	0	0.763	29	9
21^st	Rumford	1	0	0	0	2	0.746	21
22^nd	Greenville	1	0	0	0	1	0.734	25	3
23^rd	Peace Dale	1	0	0	0	0	0.728	13	10
24^th	North Scituate	2	2	2	0	0	0.72	27	3
25^th	Cumberland	9	2	2	0	1	0.714	23	2
26^th	Smithfield	3	1	1	0	0	0.707	22	4
27^th	Tiverton	3	1	1	0	0	0.705	33	6
28^th	Little Compton	1	0	0	0	0	0.702	15	13
29^th	Lincoln	3	2	2	0	1	0.698	26	3
30^th	Westerly	4	1	1	0	1	0.694	30
31^st	Hope	1	0	0	0	0	0.651	31
32^nd	Exeter	2	0	0	0	1	0.621	19	13
33^rd	Coventry	5	1	1	0	0	0.606	34	1
34^th	West Kingston	1	0	0	0	1	0.562	35	1
35^th	Cranston	17	4	5	0	2	0.496	39	4
36^th	Middletown	4	1	1	0	2	0.493	36
37^th	Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0.473	41	4
38^th	Riverside	3	1	0	0	1	0.459	37	1
39^th	North Providence	5	2	1	0	1	0.448	44	5
40^th	Warwick	14	2	3	0	5	0.44	38	2
41^st	Warren	1	1	1	0	1	0.436	32	9
42^nd	Johnston	7	1	1	0	2	0.426	40	2
43^rd	East Providence	6	1	2	0	4	0.411	43
44^th	Pascoag	1	0	0	0	1	0.343	49	5
45^th	Harrisville	2	1	1	0	0	0.343	42	3
46^th	Newport	1	1	2	0	1	0.316	47	1
47^th	Central Falls	5	3	2	0	0	0.285	45	2
48^th	Pawtucket	11	3	4	0	6	0.274	48
49^th	West Warwick	4	1	1	0	2	0.267	46	3
50^th	Woonsocket	8	3	3	0	5	0.229	51	1
51^st	Providence	29	10	17	3	23	0.213	50	1

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* Private schools are not used in determining city rank.
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These rankings were last updated on October 22, 2019, 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.
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