Summary:
Johnston has one listed middle school, Nicholas A. Ferri Middle, serving grades 6–8 and 720 students. Its 2025–26 ELA proficiency rate was essentially even with the state, but mathematics and science were notably lower: 19.3% versus 31.9% in math and 17.4% versus 31.1% in science. The most pronounced concern is eighth-grade math, where Ferri was 17.6 percentage points below the state.
There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom school comparison because Ferri is the only school in the area. Its strongest results are in ELA: 33.0% of students were proficient overall, just 0.1 point below the state and 5.4 points above the Johnston district. ELA was above the state in grade 6 by 3.6 points and grade 7 by 1.2 points, though 2.2 points below in grade 8. Math was below the state at every grade, with smaller gaps in grades 6 and 7 (5.6 and 5.5 points) than in grade 8. Ferri’s science result was 0.7 point above the district, despite being 13.7 points below the state.
Results have moved in different directions: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA fell 3.1 points and science fell 10.5 points, while math rose 0.6 point. SchoolDigger ranked Ferri at the 46th percentile in 2025–26, after the 50th percentile in 2024–25 and the 41st in 2023–24, so its ranking improved overall from the earliest year but dipped from its recent high. The school has a student–teacher ratio of 12.2 and a 59.17% free/reduced-lunch rate reported for 2024–25; these are useful context, not explanations for test results. Because the area has just one listed school, these figures cannot show how Ferri compares with other local middle schools.
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