Summary:
Portsmouth, Rhode Island, has one listed middle school, serving grades 5–8: Portsmouth Middle School. Its 2025–26 proficiency was 54.6% in English language arts (ELA), 48.6% in mathematics and 52.0% in science. The school’s results were higher than the state’s in every subject, with its largest advantage in ELA and its smallest in mathematics. Most importantly, Portsmouth Middle School exceeded Rhode Island’s proficiency rate by 21.5 percentage points in ELA, 16.7 points in mathematics and 20.9 points in science.
There is no top or bottom school to distinguish within Portsmouth’s one-school list, but Portsmouth Middle School stands out against state results while scoring below its district’s reported figures. In 2025–26, its ELA score was 1.9 points below the Portsmouth district’s, mathematics was 4.5 points lower, and science was 5.1 points lower. Grade-level scores also varied: mathematics ranged from 42.2% in grade 7 to 56.1% in grade 8, the widest spread among the subjects. Even so, the school’s results exceeded same-grade state figures across the grades shown.
Scores fell in all three subjects from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with science dropping most: 7.2 points, from 59.2% to 52.0%; ELA fell 0.9 points and mathematics 2.4 points. SchoolDigger ranked Portsmouth Middle School 8th of 68 schools, at the 88th percentile, in 2025–26, compared with 7th of 66 and the 89th percentile the previous year; its rating shifted from five stars to four. The school has 604 students, a student–teacher ratio of 11.8 in 2024–25, and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 20.86% that year. These figures offer context, but there are no other listed schools for comparison.
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