Summary:
ZIP code 02894 has three schools serving grades 1–12: Chariho High School (991 students, grades 9–12), Chariho Regional Middle School (834 students, grades 5–8), and Chariho Alternative Learning A (71 students, grades 1–12). The reported results show strong performance at the conventional middle and high schools, alongside much lower proficiency figures at the alternative school. The clearest consistent strength is the middle school, which is above state results in every reported all-grades subject.
Chariho Regional Middle School leads its reported all-grades results: science proficiency is 56.7%, 25.6 percentage points above the state; ELA is 46.8% (+13.7 points) and math is 42.6% (+10.7). Chariho High School also exceeds state results across its reported assessments, with its largest advantage in 10th-grade PSAT10 math: 61.2% versus 29.3% statewide (+31.9 points). At the lower end, Chariho Alternative Learning A reports 9.5% in all-grades ELA, under 5% in math, and 13.3% in science. These contrasts are substantial, though the schools serve different populations and grade spans.
Recent high-school assessment trends are mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, SAT ELA fell 4.2 points and SAT math fell 3.7, while PSAT10 ELA rose 11.9 points and math rose 15.4. Chariho High School remains highly ranked by SchoolDigger at 7th of 58 Rhode Island schools; Chariho Regional Middle School ranks 16th of 68, down from 13th of 64 two years earlier. Graduation rates are strong at both the high school (97.8%) and alternative school (93.3%), despite their very different proficiency results. The alternative school also has a higher free/reduced-lunch rate (64.79%) and lower student–teacher ratio (7.1) than the high school (27.35%; 12.7) and middle school (30.22%; 12.4); these are contextual differences, not explanations of achievement.
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