Summary:
The 02885 elementary-school list has one school: Hugh Cole School, serving pre-K through grade 5 with 517 students in the Bristol Warren district. In 2025–2026, its all-grades proficiency was 44% in English language arts (ELA), 41% in mathematics, and 48% in science. The most important finding is that Hugh Cole exceeded the state result in all three subjects, by 9 to 17 percentage points.
There is no second school in the ZIP-code list to identify as a local leader or trailer, so Hugh Cole’s results are best understood against state and district figures. The school’s strongest state comparison was science: 48% proficient versus 31% statewide, a 17-point advantage; its advantages were 11 points in ELA (44% versus 33%) and 9 in mathematics (41% versus 32%). However, Hugh Cole was below the district average in all three subjects: by 3 points in ELA (44% versus 48%), 2 in mathematics (41% versus 43%), and 6 in science (48% versus 55%). Grade-level results show a notable exception to the favorable state comparisons: third grade was below the state in ELA by 2 points and in mathematics by 1 point. Fourth- and fifth-grade results were above state figures in the reported subjects, including fifth-grade advantages of 17 points in ELA, 18 in mathematics, and 16 in science.
Recent test-score movement was mixed rather than consistently upward: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA fell by about 1 point, mathematics by 2 points, and science rose by 4 points. Separately, SchoolDigger’s ranking rose from the 62nd percentile with 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 69th percentile with 4 stars in 2025–2026, with a 68th-percentile, 3-star result in between; that ranking is distinct from the test-score changes. The supplied 2024–2025 context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 13.2 and a free/reduced-lunch rate of 46%.
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