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Rank (of 50)	City	# Elementary Schools	# Middle Schools	# High Schools	# Alt. Schools	# Private Schools*	Rank score (2022)	Rank (2021)	Rank change from 2021
1^st	Barrington	4	1	1	0	5	0.968	2	1
2^nd	Clayville	1	0	0	0	0	0.964	3	1
3^rd	Jamestown	1	1	0	0	0	0.946	1	2
4^th	East Greenwich	4	1	1	0	7	0.925	5	1
5^th	Little Compton	1	0	0	0	0	0.883	9	4
6^th	Rumford	1	0	0	0	2	0.88	8	2
7^th	Ashaway	1	0	0	0	0	0.861	6	1
8^th	Narragansett	1	1	1	0	2	0.859	12	4
9^th	Portsmouth	2	1	1	0	4	0.85	14	5
10^th	North Smithfield	1	1	1	0	0	0.844	17	7
11^th	Kingston	1	0	0	0	0	0.842	10	1
12^th	Saunderstown	1	0	0	0	0	0.837	4	8
13^th	North Kingstown	5	2	1	0	2	0.834	11	2
14^th	Wakefield	2	2	1	0	2	0.831	15	1
15^th	Charlestown	1	0	0	0	0	0.813	16	1
16^th	Chepachet	1	0	0	0	1	0.807	7	9
17^th	Bristol	3	0	1	0	1	0.802	19	2
18^th	Hope Valley	1	0	0	0	0	0.795	30	12
19^th	Wyoming	1	0	0	0	0	0.789	20	1
20^th	Exeter	2	0	0	0	1	0.783	22	2
21^st	Tiverton	3	1	1	0	0	0.758	21
22^nd	North Scituate	2	2	2	0	0	0.751	24	2
23^rd	Lincoln	3	2	2	0	1	0.748	27	4
24^th	Smithfield	3	1	1	0	1	0.746	13	11
25^th	Cumberland	8	2	2	0	1	0.695	29	4
26^th	West Greenwich	0	1	2	0	0	0.679	28	2
27^th	Foster	1	0	0	0	0	0.645	25	2
28^th	Westerly	3	1	1	0	1	0.64	33	5
29^th	Coventry	5	1	2	0	3	0.631	31	2
30^th	Peace Dale	1	0	0	0	0	0.627	23	7
31^st	Middletown	3	1	1	0	2	0.602	32	1
32^nd	Wood River Junction	0	1	2	1	0	0.578	35	3
33^rd	Manville	1	0	0	0	0	0.566	34	1
34^th	Hope	1	0	0	0	0	0.56	26	8
35^th	West Kingston	1	0	0	0	1	0.506	36	1
36^th	Warwick	13	2	3	0	9	0.496	39	3
37^th	Johnston	5	1	1	0	1	0.488	42	5
38^th	Cranston	16	5	5	0	2	0.459	41	3
39^th	Riverside	1	1	0	0	1	0.454	37	2
40^th	North Providence	5	2	1	0	1	0.445	38	2
41^st	Harrisville	2	1	1	0	0	0.444	40	1
42^nd	East Providence	5	1	2	0	4	0.43	45	3
43^rd	Warren	1	1	1	0	1	0.419	44	1
44^th	Pascoag	1	0	0	0	1	0.367	43	1
45^th	Pawtucket	11	3	4	0	6	0.305	48	3
46^th	Newport	1	1	2	0	1	0.304	46
47^th	Woonsocket	7	3	3	0	7	0.23	49	2
48^th	Providence	31	11	17	1	28	0.205	51	3
49^th	West Warwick	3	1	1	0	2	0.19	47	2
50^th	Central Falls	4	3	1	0	0	0.166	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 November 9, 2022, 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. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.