Best Cities in Rhode Island for Schools

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The list is updated annually upon the release of the test scores by the Rhode Island Department of Education. The most recent update was on Thursday, October 19, 2023.

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Rank (of 50)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2023)	Rank (2022)	Rank change from 2022
1^st	Ashaway	1	0	0	0	0	0.958	7	6
2^nd	East Greenwich	4	1	1	0	8	0.954	4	2
3^rd	Jamestown	1	1	0	0	0	0.953	3
4^th	Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0.946	19	15
5^th	Barrington	4	1	1	0	5	0.937	1	4
6^th	Rumford	1	0	0	0	2	0.928	6
7^th	Little Compton	1	0	0	0	1	0.92	5	2
8^th	Charlestown	1	0	0	0	0	0.904	15	7
9^th	North Smithfield	1	1	1	0	0	0.862	10	1
10^th	Saunderstown	1	0	0	0	0	0.862	12	2
11^th	Portsmouth	2	1	1	0	5	0.854	9	2
12^th	Narragansett	1	1	1	0	3	0.854	8	4
13^th	Chepachet	1	0	0	0	1	0.844	16	3
14^th	Kingston	1	0	0	0	0	0.835	11	3
15^th	North Kingstown	5	2	1	0	2	0.833	13	2
16^th	Bristol	3	0	1	0	1	0.83	17	1
17^th	Wakefield	1	2	1	0	2	0.828	14	3
18^th	Clayville	1	0	0	0	0	0.826	2	16
19^th	North Scituate	2	2	2	0	0	0.775	22	3
20^th	Tiverton	3	1	1	0	0	0.769	21	1
21^st	Wood River Junction	0	1	2	1	0	0.769	32	11
22^nd	Exeter	2	0	0	0	1	0.754	20	2
23^rd	Lincoln	3	2	2	0	1	0.743	23
24^th	Smithfield	3	1	1	0	2	0.713	24
25^th	Hope Valley	1	0	0	0	0	0.713	18	7
26^th	West Greenwich	0	1	2	0	1	0.704	26
27^th	Peace Dale	1	0	0	0	0	0.689	30	3
28^th	Cumberland	8	2	2	0	1	0.678	25	3
29^th	West Kingston	1	0	0	0	1	0.677	35	6
30^th	Westerly	3	1	1	0	1	0.619	28	2
31^st	Coventry	5	1	2	0	3	0.614	29	2
32^nd	Manville	1	0	0	0	0	0.611	33	1
33^rd	Pascoag	1	0	0	0	1	0.587	44	11
34^th	Hope	1	0	0	0	0	0.581	34
35^th	Middletown	3	1	1	0	2	0.57	31	4
36^th	Warren	1	1	1	0	1	0.514	43	7
37^th	Warwick	13	2	3	0	10	0.509	36	1
38^th	North Providence	5	3	1	0	1	0.468	40	2
39^th	Cranston	16	5	5	0	4	0.464	38	1
40^th	East Providence	5	1	2	0	4	0.455	42	2
41^st	Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0.455	27	14
42^nd	Harrisville	2	1	1	0	0	0.45	41	1
43^rd	Johnston	5	1	1	0	2	0.424	37	6
44^th	Riverside	1	1	0	0	1	0.416	39	5
45^th	Pawtucket	11	3	4	0	6	0.291	45
46^th	Woonsocket	7	3	3	0	6	0.232	47	1
47^th	West Warwick	3	1	1	0	2	0.232	49	2
48^th	Newport	1	1	2	0	1	0.217	46	2
49^th	Providence	30	11	18	1	30	0.214	48	1
50^th	Central Falls	5	3	1	0	0	0.189	50

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About our rankings:

* 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 19, 2023, 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.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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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.