Summary:
Zip code 02919 has seven schools in the Johnston district, serving children from early childhood through elementary, middle and high school; six schools report test scores. The clearest area-wide finding is that the four scored elementary schools averaged below state proficiency in every subject: 23.1% in ELA, 21.4% in math and 22.3% in science, compared with 33.1%, 31.9% and 31.1% statewide. Math also showed the widest difference among those schools, ranging from 12.2% to 30.0%.
Brown Avenue School and Thornton School stand out, with different strengths: Brown led elementary ELA at 27.5%, 3.2 points above Thornton, while Thornton led math at 30.0% and science at 27.6%. At the lower end, Sarah Dyer Barnes School had the lowest elementary math result (12.2%), and Winsor Hill School the lowest ELA result (19.4%). Nicholas A. Ferri Middle was nearly even with the state in ELA (33.0% versus 33.1%), but its math and science were 12.6 and 13.7 points below. Johnston Senior High had below-state SAT and PSAT results, alongside a 94.0% graduation rate—8.5 points above the state.
Recent results were mixed rather than moving in one direction: Brown’s ELA rose 2.5 points, while its math fell 17.7; Thornton’s math rose 4.7, while its ELA fell 4.1. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile also varied over time, rising from 25 to 35 for Thornton but falling from 60 to 37 for Brown. These measures give different perspectives, so neither should be read as a complete picture of a school. As context, Thornton had the highest reported elementary free/reduced-lunch rate (68.82%) and the lowest student–teacher ratio (10.9), while Brown had the lowest rate (43.03%) and a ratio of 11.9; these observations do not explain the schools’ results.
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