Burrillville

Schools in the Burrillville area include five public schools—three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school—with 2025–26 proficiency results available for four; no test results were supplied for Austin T. Levy School. The most important finding for parents is the sizable academic divide between Steere Farm Elementary School and Burrillville Middle School: Steere led Middle by 18.6 percentage points in all-grade ELA and 22.9 points in math.

Steere Farm stands out among the elementary and middle schools, with 39.3% proficiency in ELA, 37.9% in math and 38.1% in science—the highest reported all-grade results in each subject. By contrast, Burrillville Middle had the lowest RICAS results: 20.7% in ELA and 15.0% in math, respectively 12.4 and 16.9 points below state results. William Callahan School was between them in ELA and math; its grade-5 results were notably below Steere’s by 13.6 points in ELA and 13.7 points in math. At high school, Burrillville High School had above-state SAT results and a 98.6% graduation rate, but its grade-11 science proficiency was 6.1 points below the state.

Recent results are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Middle’s all-grade ELA fell 7.1 points, Callahan’s math fell 4.8 points, and Steere’s ELA rose 3.7 points while its math declined 2.8 points. Steere Farm was ranked 62 of 163 by SchoolDigger and received 3 stars; Callahan ranked 101 of 163 with 2 stars, while Middle ranked 47 of 68 with 2 stars. These results sit alongside different school contexts: Steere’s student-teacher ratio was 13.4:1 and its free/reduced-lunch rate 35.45%, compared with 11.1:1 and 43.71% at Middle and 14:1 and 49.68% at Callahan. Because schools serve different grades and Austin T. Levy has no supplied scores, the figures do not offer a complete like-for-like comparison of all five schools.