Summary:
Zip code 02806 has six public schools in the Barrington district, serving elementary, middle, and high school grades and 3,267 students; SchoolDigger ranks the district 4th of 61 in Rhode Island and gives it five stars. The clearest overall takeaway for parents is that every supplied 2025–26 result with a state comparison is above the state result, though strengths vary by school, grade, and subject.
Among the three schools reporting third-grade results, Primrose Hill School leads in ELA at 82.4%, 9.9 percentage points above Nayatt School and 3.0 points above Sowams Elementary School. Sowams leads third-grade math at 74.2%, 15.1 points above Nayatt and 11.0 above Primrose. At the middle-school level, Barrington Middle School has a notable grade 6 math dip at 47.1%, compared with 64.7% in grade 7 and 64.1% in grade 8. Barrington High School reports 85.8% proficiency in grade 11 SAT ELA and 65.7% in SAT math, respectively 38.0 and 42.2 points above state results.
Recent changes are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, ELA and math fell at both Barrington Middle and Hampden Meadows School, while science rose at those two schools and fell at Barrington High. SchoolDigger’s latest statewide rankings place Barrington High 1st, Barrington Middle 5th of 68, Sowams 2nd, Primrose 10th, and Nayatt 15th; the district’s strong rating does not mean every school or subject is equally strong. School characteristics add context, not an explanation: Primrose reports a 16.41% free/reduced-lunch rate and a strong third-grade ELA result, while Sowams leads in math with an 8.8% rate; both report a 13.1 student-teacher ratio. Hampden Meadows has the highest reported ratio, 15.7.
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