Niche.com: Classical has best teachers in state

CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL has the best high school teachers in Rhode Island, according to niche.com. / COURTESY NICHE.COM
CLASSICAL HIGH SCHOOL has the best high school teachers in Rhode Island, according to niche.com. / COURTESY NICHE.COM

PROVIDENCE – In Rhode Island, Classical High School has the best teachers, followed by Portsmouth High School and Narragansett High School, according to a report by niche.com, which ranked select public schools in the state.

North Kingstown High School and Exeter-West Greenwich Senior High School round out the rest of the top five.
To find out where the best teachers are, the website ranked 29 high schools in Rhode Island, as well as the top 100 high schools nationwide. No Rhode Island schools made the top 100 list, which was led by Saratoga High School in Saratoga, Calif.
Altogether, 5,886 public high schools were ranked based on key teaching statistics and nearly 920,000 teacher ratings from 240,000 students and parents, niche.com said. Factors such as teacher salary, teacher absenteeism, student-teacher ratio and number of teachers in their first or second year were considered.
“A high ranking indicates that teachers are intelligent and engaging, the school is invested in its teachers and provides a good educational environment, and students and parents rate their teachers favorably,” niche.com stated.
Here is a snapshot of what the 232 survey respondents had to say about Classical (Niche.com said reviews were mostly positive. A few of the more unfavorable reviews had to do with the school lunch quality. An example, “The food is not tasty.”):

  • I love Classical since I have met a lot of really smart students since it is an exam school. I wouldn’t have chosen any other high school since this school filters out a lot of unmotivated students that are not prepared for the college preparatory environment that Classical provides.
  • Our school does not have any issues with violence, because we are all way too busy trying to get all our work done.

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