High Schools in Foster-Glocester

The Foster-Glocester area has one high school, Ponaganset High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 869 students. The most important finding for families is that the school’s reported 2025–2026 proficiency rates were above Rhode Island’s in every listed subject and grade, and its 2024–2025 graduation rate was also well above the state rate.

There is no second local high school to rank above or below Ponaganset, so the list cannot show which school is strongest or weakest within the area. Compared with the state, Ponaganset’s largest test-score advantage was 23.5 percentage points in 10th-grade PSAT math; its smallest was 11.2 points in 11th-grade science. The school graduated 96.2% of students in 2024–2025, 10.7 points above the state rate of 85.5% and 1.2 points above the district rate. SchoolDigger ranked Ponaganset 11th of 58 Rhode Island high schools that year, placing it in the 81st percentile and awarding it four stars.

Results improved on the 10th-grade PSAT between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: ELA rose 8.3 points to 78.0%, while math rose 14.4 points to 52.8%. SAT math also increased, from 35.1% to 41.0%, but SAT ELA declined from 70.3% to 62.4%; the all-grades science rate edged down from 43.0% to 42.5%. SchoolDigger’s rank improved from 14th of 61 schools in 2023–2024 to 11th of 58 in 2025–2026, though the ranking pool changed. Other useful context includes a 12.7:1 student–teacher ratio and a 24.05% free/reduced-lunch rate in 2024–2025; these describe the school but do not provide a comparison with another local high school.