High Schools in Highlander

Highlander has one listed high school, Highlander Secondary Charter S, serving grades 7–12 and enrolling 340 students. Its 2025–26 all-grades proficiency rates were 9.4% in English language arts (ELA), 13.5% in mathematics and 10.0% in science, compared with Rhode Island rates of 33.1%, 31.9% and 31.1%, respectively. The most important finding is that proficiency was substantially below the state rate in all three subjects, with gaps of 18.4 to 23.7 percentage points.

There are no other listed local schools to compare, so Highlander Secondary Charter S cannot be identified as a local leader or laggard. Mathematics is its closest subject to the state results: the school’s 13.5% proficiency rate was 18.4 points below the state, while its ELA and science gaps were 23.7 and 21.1 points. Mathematics was also 4.4 points above the district rate of 9.1%; the school was 3.4 points below the district in both ELA and science. Graduation is a relative bright spot: the 2024–25 rate was 84.0%, 1.5 points below the state but 3.6 points above the district.

Results improved overall on a simple average, but the subject trends were mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, mathematics rose 8.3 points to 13.5% and science rose 3.5 points to 10.0%, while ELA fell 2.2 points to 9.4%. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 45th of 60 schools and 1 star in 2024–25 to 42nd of 58 and 2 stars in 2025–26; its percentile rose from 25 to 28. That modest ranking improvement is not the same as a test-score increase, and the school’s ELA results declined. The student–teacher ratio is 15.4, and the reported free/reduced-lunch rate is 87.35%; these figures describe the school’s context, not the cause of its results. With only one school listed, families have no local school-to-school comparison in these data.