Summary:
Excel Academy Rhode Island is the only school in this list, a Rhode Island middle school serving grades 5–8 with 312 students. Its 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency rates were 36.4% in English language arts (ELA), 34.3% in math, and 31.9% in science. Each was above the state rate: by 3.3 percentage points in ELA, 2.4 in math, and 0.8 in science. The most important overall finding is that the school was above the state in all three subjects, with its largest advantage in ELA.
There are no other listed schools to identify as local leaders or trailers, but results vary notably by grade. ELA was above the state in every grade reported, by 3.0 to 5.9 points; grade 8 had the largest edge, at 39.0% compared with 33.1%. Math is the clearest area of contrast: grades 6 and 8 were well above the state, by 13.0 and 13.2 points, while grade 5 was 2.8 points below and grade 7 was 7.7 points below. Science was below the state in grade 5 by 3.6 points, but above it in grade 8 by 3.9 points. These grade-level differences mean the all-grades results do not describe every grade equally.
Results improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose 2.0 points, science 1.3, and math 0.4. SchoolDigger’s rank-history entry gives the school a three-star rating and a rank of 27th out of 68 (60th percentile); a separate district entry lists 27th out of 61 (56th percentile). The school reports a student–teacher ratio of 14.8, a 79.81% free/reduced-lunch rate, and spending of $18,200 per student; the latter two figures are for 2024–2025 and provide context rather than an explanation of results. Because only one school is listed and SchoolDigger’s ranking entries differ, local school-to-school comparisons are not available and the ranking figures are not fully consistent.
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