Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 02891

ZIP code 02891 has one listed middle school, Westerly Middle School, serving grades 5–8 and enrolling 639 students. Its 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 11, and 43.82% of students received free or reduced-price lunch. With no other listed local middle schools for comparison, the clearest finding is that in 2025–26 Westerly’s all-grades proficiency rates were higher than the state’s in ELA, math and science.

Math is the school’s strongest subject relative to the state: 42.1% were proficient, 10.2 percentage points above the state rate of 31.9%, and Westerly exceeded the state rate in each of grades 5–8. ELA was 39.2%, 6.1 points above the state, with Westerly ahead in every grade as well. Science was 37.2%, also 6.1 points above the state overall, but its grade-level results varied: grade 5 was 4.7 points below the state rate, while grade 8 was 15.6 points above. The Westerly district was the higher benchmark in all three all-grades subjects: its rates exceeded the school’s by 0.6 points in ELA, 3.2 in math and 2.4 in science.

Year-to-year changes were mixed rather than uniformly positive: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Westerly’s math rate rose 5.3 points to 42.1%, while ELA fell 0.9 points to 39.2% and science fell 4.7 points to 37.2%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from 26th of 64 schools in 2023–24 to 19th of 68 in 2025–26, and its rating rose from 3 stars to 4; those gains occurred alongside the different subject trends. Because only one school is listed, families cannot compare school-level results or characteristics across middle schools in this ZIP code.