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According to RIDE data, Warwick spends about $18,000 per student in it's public schools. Cranston, with 1400 more students than Warwick, spends about $15,000 per student. The results:

23.5% of Warwick's junior high students demonstrate academic proficiency, compared with 43.1% of Cranston students. 23.6% of Warwick high school students demonstrate academic proficiency, while 47.4% of Cranston high school students do the same. In Warwick, the deterioration in proficiency from elementary school, to junior high, to high school is dramatic. In Cranston, there is virtually no drop-off. Before spending another dime Warwick taxpayers and parents may wish to consider the utterly deplorable return they are receiving for their "investment". At present, the only ones not running from the Warwick public schools are those who do not or can not understand the data. As Warwick students grow less and less competitive in an economy requiring the very skills Warwick kids lack, those in charge are arguing about air conditioning! I'm told the admissions office at Bishop Hendricken is having a hard time keeping up. What an utter and complete embarrassment.

In exchange for this expenditure, only 23.6% of Warwick high school students are proficient in Reading and Math, and 23.5% of junior high students are proficient. While some may be heartened that 39.1% of elementary students are proficient, the bad news is that the longer those students remain in the Warwick public schools, the less proficient they become. In rather marked contrast, Cranston spends about $15,000 per student. 47.4% of Cranston high school students demonstrate adequate proficiency, and 43.1% of junior high students. Unlike Warwick, where proficiency declines, Cranston students appear to retain their proficiency as 46.1% of elementary students demonstrate proficiency.