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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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