Summary:
Westerly, Rhode Island, has one listed high school: Westerly High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 650 students. Its 2024–25 graduation rate was 93.5%, above the Westerly district rate of 86.8% and the state rate of 85.5%. The clearest overall strength is that the school exceeded Rhode Island’s proficiency rate in all five latest matched test comparisons.
There is no meaningful local top-versus-bottom comparison because Westerly High School is the only school in the list. Against the state, its strongest latest result was 11th-grade SAT English Language Arts: 69.6% proficient, 21.8 percentage points above Rhode Island. It also led the state by 13.9 points in 10th-grade PSAT10 ELA, while its smallest advantage was 9.1 points in 11th-grade SAT math. SchoolDigger ranks the school 14th among 58 Rhode Island schools and gives it four stars. The 93.5% graduation rate was also 8.0 points above the state rate.
Recent results show improvement in some areas and declines in others, rather than a consistent upward trend. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, PSAT10 proficiency rose 3.0 points in ELA and 13.4 points in math; SAT ELA increased 3.8 points, but SAT math fell 9.7 points. Science proficiency dropped 11.5 points year over year, though the latest result of 44.6% remained 13.5 points above the state’s all-grades rate. SchoolDigger’s rank improved from 23rd of 61 schools in 2023–24 to 14th of 60 the next year, then held at 14th of 58. The reported student–teacher ratio is 9.5, and 38.46% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch—useful context, not an explanation for outcomes. With no other local schools listed, families cannot use these figures to compare nearby options.
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