Best Public Schools in Zip Code 02830

Zip code 02830 is served by four public schools in Burrillville, spanning kindergarten through grade 12 and enrolling 1,667 students. The strongest reported academic results are at Burrillville High School, while the clearest concern is middle-school math: proficiency at Burrillville Middle School was well below the state in every tested grade, with the largest gap in grade 8.

Burrillville High School stands out at the top of the reported results: its grade 11 SAT proficiency was 8.9 percentage points above the state in ELA and 6.5 points above in math, and its grade 10 PSAT10 results were also above state levels in both subjects. Its graduation rate was 98.6%, compared with 85.5% statewide. At the bottom, Burrillville Middle School had 15.0% proficiency in all-grades RICAS math, 16.9 points below the state; grade 8 math was 20 points below. William Callahan School was near the state in all-grades math, but its grade 5 results lagged by 13.4 points in ELA and 9.0 in math, despite grade 3 results slightly above state levels in both subjects. The schools serve different grade spans, so their all-grades scores are not direct comparisons.

Recent trends are mixed rather than uniformly improving or declining. At Burrillville High School, the SAT math gap over the state widened from 1.4 to 6.5 points, and the PSAT10 ELA gap widened from 11.4 to 14.7 points; however, its PSAT10 math advantage narrowed from 9.5 to 3.4 points. RICAS math at William Callahan School fell 4.8 points over two years, while science rose 8.8; at Burrillville Middle School, ELA fell 7.1 points and science rose 1.0. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings were 25th of 58 for the high school, 47th of 68 for the middle school, and 101st of 163 for Callahan. Reported student–teacher ratios ranged from 11.0 to 14.0, and free/reduced-lunch rates from 37.22% to 49.68%; these figures describe school context, not the cause of results.