Summary:
Zip code 02835 has one elementary school, Jamestown School-Melrose, serving prekindergarten through grade 4 and enrolling 207 students. In 2025–26, 70.9% of students were proficient in ELA and 68.4% in mathematics, compared with 33.1% and 31.9% statewide. The school’s results were also close to those of the Jamestown district, making its strongest overall takeaway clear: it performs far above the state, but not substantially above its district.
Because it is the only school in the area’s list, Jamestown School-Melrose is both the top and bottom local option; the most useful contrast is between its grade-level results. Third-grade mathematics stands out at 84.8% proficient, 47.7 percentage points above the state. Fourth-grade mathematics is the clearest weaker result: 56.5%, still 21.4 points above the state but 28.3 points below the school’s third-grade result. ELA proficiency was 78.8% in grade 3 and 65.2% in grade 4, with both grades above state results. These differences suggest looking beyond the all-grades averages when considering the school’s performance.
Results declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26: ELA fell 4.1 percentage points, from 75.0% to 70.9%, and mathematics fell 6.6 points, from 75.0% to 68.4%; meanwhile, district results edged up by 0.7 points in ELA and 0.2 in mathematics. The school’s lead over the district narrowed from 5.1 to 0.3 points in ELA, while it moved from 6.5 points ahead to 0.3 points behind in mathematics. SchoolDigger ranked the school 9th of 163 Rhode Island schools (94th percentile) in 2025–26, and ranked the district 2nd of 61 (97th percentile). The school’s 10.8 student–teacher ratio and 9.66% free/reduced-lunch rate provide context, but the single-school list does not allow local comparisons of school characteristics or results.
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