Summary:
Westerly has three elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 4, with enrollments of 212 to 264 students. In 2025–26, all three schools’ all-grade proficiency rates exceeded the state rates in both English Language Arts (ELA) and math; across the schools, the average was 42.6% in ELA and 53.0% in math, compared with 33.1% and 31.9% statewide. The clearest shared strength is math, where the schools’ average was 21.1 percentage points above the state rate.
State Street School leads the all-grade results, with 51.2% proficient in ELA and 60.0% in math. Springbrook Elementary School is lowest in both subjects, at 34.8% in ELA and 40.2% in math—16.4 and 19.8 points below State Street, respectively, though still above state rates. Grade-level results show different strengths: Dunn’s Corners School has the group’s highest grade 3 math rate, 68.0%, while State Street leads grade 4 ELA and math, at 50.0% and 61.4%. Dunn’s grade 4 ELA rate, 32.8%, is close to the state’s 32.4%, despite its stronger grade 3 ELA result of 52.9%.
Recent changes are mixed: Springbrook made the largest gains from 2024–25, improving 7.0 points in ELA and 6.3 in math, while State Street rose 1.8 and 4.2 points. Dunn’s Corners fell 7.4 points in ELA and slipped 0.3 in math. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rankings also rose from 2023–24 to 2025–26: State Street increased 15 points to 85, Springbrook rose 9 to 55, and Dunn’s Corners rose 3 to 77. The schools have similarly modest student-teacher ratios, from 9.3 at Springbrook to 10.1 at State Street, but results vary; free/reduced-lunch rates range from 33.71% at Dunn’s Corners to 62.14% at Springbrook and are descriptive context, not an explanation for results.
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