For the First Time Ever, a Ranking of the State's Public Schools

For the First Time Ever, a Ranking of the State's Public Schools

Everyone's got an opinion: which public school in the state is the best?  From living rooms to lacrosse fields, you can hear parents, alums, and professionals handicap the competition, wielding everything from graduation rates and SAT scores to the size of a school’s budget.

And this isn’t a trivial debate.  Figuring out what makes our best schools work is an essential step towards school reform, a hot-button topic throughout Rhode Island.

But who's right?  GoLocalProv put the data to the test, and after months’ worth of research and thorough vetting and analysis, has emerged with a ranking. 

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Are you ready to debate?  Rethink?  Relocate? 

 

Top Schools Rankings: The Math   A peek under the hood of a summer's worth of data collection and analysis.

Top Schools Rankings: The List   From #1 to #52, a listing of every public school and how it fared.

Top Schools Rankings: The Table    From NECAPs to SATs and more school data, a comparison of every school.

Fifth Place Top School: South Kingstown High School

Fourth Place Top School: Barrington High School

Third Place Top School: Narragansett High School

Second Place Top School: Block Island School

Rhode Island's Top School: East Greenwich High School