High Schools in West Warwick

West Warwick has one high school, West Warwick High School, serving grades 9–12. It enrolls 1,081 students, with a student–teacher ratio of 13 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 56.06%. The main academic concern is that the school scored below Rhode Island in all five reported 2025–26 test comparisons, with the largest gap in grade 11 math.

There is no meaningful top-to-bottom comparison among schools in the area because this is the only one. Compared with the state, the school’s closest result was grade 10 ELA, at 55.4% versus 56.0% (0.6 percentage points lower); its widest gap was grade 11 math, at 12.6% versus 23.5% (10.9 points lower). Results were much closer to those in the West Warwick district: the school was at or slightly above district results in all five comparisons. Graduation is a relative strength: 89.7% in 2024–25, compared with 82.6% for the district and 85.5% statewide.

The school’s gap with the state widened across all four tests reported in both years. Grade 11 SAT ELA moved from 1.0 point below the state in 2024–25 to 5.5 points below in 2025–26, while grade 10 PSAT10 ELA shifted from 2.9 points above to 0.6 below; the math gaps also grew. Science proficiency rose slightly, from 22.0% to 23.2%, but remained below the current state result of 31.3%. SchoolDigger ranked the school 32nd of 58 schools in 2025–26, placing it in the 45th percentile with two stars; its ranking has stayed fairly steady over three years. These figures describe the school, but with no other local high schools in the list, they cannot show how it compares with similar schools or explain its results.