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This will take some web savvy "footwork", but get the school population numbers from RIDE - http://www.eride.ri.gov/reports/reports.asp (use October enrollment for 2012-13) and then compare to the RI Dep Ed. Infoworks site for total HS performance http://infoworks.ride.ri.gov/reports/accountability/absolute-proficiency-high-schools/2012

You'll see high scoring, large schools, more urban (higher and bigger than Warwick) and low scoring small suburban schools. Correlation doesn't equal causation by any means. I have read several of the studies cited and while there are stronger indications re: smaller=better for elementary schools, they are more mixed for high school. And none really seem to overtly address controlling for demographics (urban, rural, poverty, etc). Demographics have much more to do with it than simple school size (so does teacher quality and parental involvement, btw). There are many, many other factors that can't be broken out into simplistic class-size or school-size metrics. Here is a very roughly formatted copy and paste comparison of the aforementioned sources. Note the ratings of Warwick's HS, too.

School---Total Population---InfoWorks Rating Score---InfoWorks School Classification

Block Island---111---30---Suburban

Classical High School---1113---27---Urban Core

Exeter-West Greenwich Regional High School---562---27---Regional

North Smithfield High School---550---27---Suburban

Scituate High School---491---27---Suburban

Smithfield Senior High School---772---25.5---Suburban

Barrington High School---1037---23---Suburban

Portsmouth High School---974---21---Suburban

Wm. M. Davies Jr. Career-Technical High School---833---21---State

Ponaganset High School---722---21---Regional

North Kingstown Senior High Schoo---1454---20---Suburban

South Kingstown High School---1095---20---Suburban

Mt. Hope High School---1031---20---Regional

Middletown High School---737---20---Suburban

East Greenwich High School---766---19.5--- Suburban

Rogers High School ---587---19.5---Urban Core

Walsh Performing Arts (Pawtucket)---167---19.5---Urban Ring

Chariho Regional High School---1136---19---Regional

Cumberland High School---1403---17---Suburban

West Warwick Senior High School---982---17---Urban Ring

Times2 Academy---652---17---Urban Core

Narragansett High School---462---16.8---Suburban

Burrillville High School---700---16.5---Suburban

Coventry High School---1694---16---Suburban

Cranston High School West---1629---16---Urban Ring

Lincoln Senior High School---1067---16---Suburban

North Providence High School ---998---16---Urban Ring

Toll Gate High School---982---16---Urban Ring

Westerly High School---941---16---Suburban

East Providence High School---1564---15---Urban Ring

ACE Academy (Providence)---207---15---Urban Ring

Cranston High School East---1587---14---Urban Ring

Pilgrim High School---1078---14---Urban Ring

Johnston Senior High School---903---14---Urban Ring

Tiverton High School---570---14---Suburban

Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center---868---13---State

Woonsocket High School---1736---12---Urban Core

William E Tolman Senior High School---1050---12---Urban Ring

Warwick Veterans Memorial HS---992---12---Urban Ring

E-Cubed Academy---360---12---Urban Ring

NEL/CPS Construction Career Academy ---175---12---Urban Ring

Charles E. Shea High School---905---10---Urban Core

Central Falls Senior High School---838---10---Urban Core

Mount Pleasant High School---884---9---Urban Core

Providence Career and Technical Academy---568---8.4---Urban Core

Central High School---1101---8---Urban Core

William B. Cooley, Sr. High---717---6---Urban Core

Dr. Jorge Alvarez High School---563---6---Urban Core

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