Elementary Schools in Barrington

Barrington, Rhode Island, has four elementary schools: Hampden Meadows School serves grades 4–5, while Nayatt School, Primrose Hill School, and Sowams Elementary School serve preschool or kindergarten through grade 3; the clearest shared finding is that every school’s 2025–2026 reported ELA and math proficiency exceeded the state result.

Primrose Hill stands out in ELA, with 82.4% proficient—3.0 points above Sowams, the next-highest, and 49.3 points above the state. Sowams leads in math at 74.2%, 11.0 points above Primrose Hill and 42.3 points above the state. Grade 3 results confirm those subject strengths: Primrose Hill leads ELA at 82.4%, while Sowams leads math at 74.2%; Nayatt scores 72.5% and 59.1%, respectively. Hampden Meadows has the lowest all-grades figures, 57.3% in ELA and 52.5% in math, but its grades 4–5 span differs from the other schools’ grade span, so this is not a like-for-like comparison.

Available proficiency trends are limited: only Hampden Meadows has results for both years, with ELA falling 3.3 points and math 5.3 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while science rose 3.2 points. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide rankings place Sowams 2nd of 163, Primrose Hill 10th, and Nayatt 15th; these are rankings, not proficiency trends. Among those three schools, enrollment, student–teacher ratios, and free/reduced-lunch rates do not show a simple pattern matching results: for example, Sowams has the smallest enrollment (250) and leads grade 3 math, while Nayatt has the largest (356) and the lowest grade 3 scores. Their reported lunch rates are 8.8% and 6.46%, respectively, and provide context rather than an explanation for outcomes.