Best High Schools in Zip Code 02864

ZIP code 02864 has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Cumberland High School, with 1,428 students, and Blackstone Valley Prep High, with 405. Taken together, the schools average above the state on all five latest test comparisons, but that area-wide picture hides differences between them. The clearest finding for families is that Cumberland leads on every reported 2025–26 test, though its advantage is only 1 point on grade 10 PSAT10 math and reaches 11 points on grade 11 SAT English language arts.

Cumberland stands out most broadly: it exceeds the state on all five comparisons, by 5 to 13 points, and leads Blackstone Valley Prep by 10 points in all-grades science, 11 in SAT English, 8 in PSAT10 English, 6 in SAT math, and 1 in PSAT10 math. Blackstone Valley Prep is below the state on science, SAT math, and PSAT10 English, each by about 1 point, but is above it by 2 points in SAT English and 6 in PSAT10 math. Other outcomes also favor Cumberland: its graduation rate was 91%, versus 87% at Blackstone Valley Prep and 86% statewide. Blackstone Valley Prep’s dropout rate was 13%, compared with 5% at Cumberland and 7% statewide.

Test results changed unevenly, and the schools’ average advantage over the state narrowed on all four comparable SAT and PSAT10 measures. The average gap narrowed by 2 points in SAT English, 8 in SAT math, 7 in PSAT10 English, and 1 in PSAT10 math; the math exception is that both schools’ PSAT10 math scores rose. Science also moved in opposite directions: Cumberland fell 4 points while Blackstone Valley Prep rose 7. SchoolDigger rankings shifted from 13 of 61 to 18 of 58 for Cumberland, while Blackstone Valley Prep moved from 30 of 61 to 27 of 58. Their student–teacher ratios are nearly the same, 13.6 and 13.5, despite free/reduced-lunch rates of 30% and 74%, respectively; these are context, not explanations for results.