Summary:
Zip code 02908 has seven schools spanning elementary, middle, high school and alternative education, with enrollment from 77 at R.I. School for the Deaf to 997 at Mount Pleasant High. Reported free/reduced-lunch rates average about 85% across the schools. The clearest area-wide finding is that proficiency in the comparable broad assessment results is well below state rates: five schools average 18.6% in ELA and 19.5% in math, compared with 33.1% and 31.9% statewide, while their science average is 16.3% versus 31.1% statewide.
George J. West Elementary School leads the five schools with exact broad results in both ELA (23.0%) and math (23.8%), but remains 10.1 and 8.1 points below the state, respectively. At the high-school level, Times2 Middle/High School stands out against Mount Pleasant: its grade-11 SAT ELA proficiency is 41.7% versus 10.8%, and its graduation rate is 95.5% versus 80.0%. The reverse is not true on every measure: Greene leads Times2 in middle-grade ELA at grades 6, 7 and 8, while Times2 leads in math at two of those grades. SchoolDigger places Times2 Middle/High at the 43rd percentile and Mount Pleasant at the 0th; these are relative rankings, not proficiency rates.
Recent results show no uniform upward trend. For five schools with results in both years, average RICAS ELA fell 2.16 points and science fell 0.96, while math was nearly unchanged, up 0.14. George J. West improved in all three subjects; Times2 Elementary School fell in all three, including a 9.7-point math drop. Grade-level results can help families distinguish schools: Times2 Elementary had 29.3% ELA proficiency in grade 3 and 21.4% in grade 4, but under 5% in grade 5; Nathanael Greene Middle leads Times2 Middle/High in ELA across grades 6–8. SchoolDigger rankings rose 12 percentile points for George J. West and Paul Cuffee Lower School from 2023–24 to 2025–26, while Times2 Elementary fell 7. Reported lunch rates and student-teacher ratios vary, but are context rather than explanations; some results are suppressed or reported only as “under 5%.”
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