Summary:
ZIP code 02842 in Middletown has five schools: three elementary schools, one middle school and one high school, serving students from elementary grades through grade 12. The Middletown district is ranked 22nd of 61 districts by SchoolDigger, at the 64th percentile with 3 stars. Across the schools, results are generally above state levels, but vary by school and subject; the clearest standout is Aquidneck School, which leads the reported RICAS results by a wide margin.
Aquidneck has the highest all-grades RICAS results: 64.4% in ELA and 61.5% in math, compared with 47.8% and 42.1% at the next-highest schools. In the direct third-grade comparison, it leads Forest Avenue School by 16.7 percentage points in ELA and 20.9 points in math. Gaudet Learning Academy is another bright spot, above state results in all its reported subjects. At the lower end, Gaudet Middle School has the lowest all-grades ELA result, 32.7% versus 33.1% statewide, though its math result is above state. Middletown High School is above state in both SAT and PSAT10 subjects.
Recent trends are mixed: high school SAT ELA fell 7.0 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while PSAT10 math rose 9.1 points; Gaudet Middle’s ELA fell 7.5 points, while Gaudet Learning Academy’s math rose 11.5 points. SchoolDigger ranks Aquidneck 16th of 163 elementary schools, at the 90th percentile with 5 stars; its percentile rose 27 points since 2023–24, while Gaudet Middle’s fell 10 points. Context figures do not by themselves explain results: the schools’ student–teacher ratios range from 10.6 to 12.5, and Gaudet Learning Academy has the highest reported free/reduced-lunch rate, 40.54%, while still scoring above state in its reported subjects.
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