Summary:
ZIP code 02904 has 10 schools spanning elementary, middle and high school: five elementary schools, two middle schools and three high schools, with reported results varying considerably across the area. The clearest high-school standout is North Providence High, whose test results and graduation rate are well ahead of the other local high schools.
At the elementary level, Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School led in all three subjects, with 33.5% proficiency in ELA, 35.6% in math and 23.8% in science; its ELA and math results were 0.4 and 3.7 percentage points above state figures. Birchwood Middle School led Esek Hopkins Middle in every comparable reported grade-and-subject result, with ELA gaps of 26.3 points in grade 7 and more than 29.4 points in grade 8. Among high schools, North Providence’s 51.9% grade-11 SAT ELA proficiency compared with 15% at E-Cubed Academy and under 5% at Aventure Academy. Its graduation rate was 94.3%, versus 88.1% at E-Cubed and 29.3% at Aventure. At the other end, Harry Kizirian Elementary had the lowest elementary ELA and math results, at 14.7% and 14.5%.
Elementary averages edged up from 2024–25 to 2025–26, but school trends differed: Joseph A. Whelan School gained 10.1 points in ELA and 10.7 in math, while Stephen Olney School fell in all three subjects, including 9.2 points in science. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose for Kizirian from the 2nd percentile in 2023–24 to the 10th in 2025–26, even as its latest scores remained among the lowest; Birchwood’s rank fell from the 61st to the 47th percentile. Context measures do not neatly track results: Aventure had the lowest student-teacher ratio among the high schools, 8.1, while reporting the lowest graduation rate. Kennedy’s free/reduced-lunch rate was 69.4%, compared with 47.42% at Olney; these figures are context, not explanations for school performance.
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