Summary:
Jamestown has two public schools serving 396 students across PK–8: Jamestown School-Melrose serves PK–4, and Jamestown School-Lawn serves grades 5–8. Most importantly, both schools’ latest ELA and math proficiency rates are around 69–71%, roughly 37 percentage points above the corresponding state rates.
Jamestown School-Lawn stands out in SchoolDigger’s latest middle-school rankings: it is 1st of 68 in Rhode Island, in the 99th percentile, with five stars. Jamestown School-Melrose is also highly ranked at 9th of 163 elementary schools, in the 94th percentile, with five stars; SchoolDigger ranks the district 2nd of 61. The all-grade results are nearly tied: Melrose is 0.4 percentage points higher in ELA (70.9% versus 70.5%), while Lawn is 0.4 points higher in math (68.8% versus 68.4%). Lawn also reports 68.2% proficiency in science, 37.1 points above the state rate; science results are not provided for Melrose.
Recent results moved in opposite directions: Melrose’s ELA and math rates fell 4.1 and 6.6 points from 2024–25, while Lawn’s rose 3.1 and 3.6 points; Lawn’s science rate also increased 8.2 points. Across both schools, the equal-weight averages dipped slightly in ELA (0.5 points) and math (1.5 points). Their reported characteristics differ modestly: Melrose has 10.8 students per teacher and a 9.66% free/reduced-lunch rate, compared with Lawn’s 9.0 and 11.64%. These are observations, not explanations for achievement; because the schools serve different grades, their grade-level scores are not direct comparisons.
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