Summary:
ZIP code 02910 has two middle schools in Cranston: Park View Middle School and Hugh B. Bain Middle School, and both serve grades 6–8. In 2025–2026, their average proficiency was 21.65% in ELA, 16.70% in math, and 16.75% in science, compared with state rates of 33.1%, 31.9%, and 31.1%. The most important finding is that neither school meets the state rate in any of the three subjects, although Park View leads Bain in all-grade results across them.
Park View stands out as the stronger overall performer: its proficiency rates are 29.2% in ELA, 18.8% in math, and 21.3% in science, leading Bain by 15.1, 4.2, and 9.1 percentage points, respectively. SchoolDigger ranks Park View 41st of 68 schools, at the 40th percentile with 2 stars; Bain ranks 55th, at the 19th percentile with 1 star. Bain has the lower all-grade rates—14.1% in ELA, 14.6% in math, and 12.2% in science—but its sixth-grade math result is a notable exception: 23.2%, compared with Park View’s 16.8%. Both schools’ sixth-grade math rates remain below the state’s 29.1%.
Recent results are mixed rather than consistently improving. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Park View’s ELA and science rates fell by 3.6 and 4.2 points, while math rose 1.7 points; Bain’s ELA fell 2.0 points, and math and science each edged up 0.2. Park View’s SchoolDigger percentile also declined from 50th in 2023–2024 to 40th in 2025–2026, while Bain moved from 17th to 19th over that span after reaching 26th in between. The schools differ in context, too: Park View has a 12.2 student-teacher ratio, a 65.82% free/reduced-lunch rate, and reported spending of $16,424 per student; Bain’s figures are 10.5, 88.24%, and $19,970. These observations do not explain the differences in results.
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