Summary:
ZIP code 02920 has 13 schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 5,823 students enrolled across the schools. In 2025–2026, the two middle schools were near the state result in ELA, while elementary results varied widely and the two high schools had sharply different outcomes. The clearest overall takeaway is that school results differ substantially within the ZIP code, so area-wide averages can hide important differences between schools.
Stone Hill School led elementary schools in ELA, at 51.8%, and math, at 43.6%; those results were 18.7 and 11.7 percentage points above state results. Oak Lawn School led grade-5 science at 59.5%, 26.9 points above the state result. At the lower end, Gladstone Street School had the lowest elementary ELA result, 13.1%, while Arlington School had the lowest math result, 12.7%; George J. Peters School had the lowest grade-5 science result, 6.8%. At high school, Cranston High School West outperformed Apprenticeship Exploration School in every listed test; for 11th-grade SAT ELA, the results were 59.6% and 11.1%, respectively.
Recent changes are mixed rather than uniformly upward or downward. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Oak Lawn improved 9.3 points in ELA and 15.9 in science, while its math result fell 4.7 points; SchoolDigger’s percentile rank rose from 47 to 66 over three years. Staffing figures also don’t neatly track results: Gladstone had a low student-teacher ratio of 11.4 but low ELA and math results, while Oak Lawn had a ratio of 16.4 and the top science result. Reported free/reduced-lunch rates ranged from 15.79% at Oak Lawn to 88.56% at Gladstone; these are context, not an explanation for performance. Small tested groups and suppressed results can make some percentages less stable.
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