The mission of Wickford Middle School is to provide our students with pathways for academic and personal success through rigorous and diverse educational opportunities and to challenge them to become responsible, contributing members of a global society. When you walk through our doors, you'll find a truly collaborative environment where students, staff, and administration work together to ensure our students are given the best possible opportunities to succeed. We strive to develop the academic, social, emotional, and creative growth of all of our students during their time at WMS. This school year, in an effort to build the social/emotional competencies of our students, we joined two nation-wide programs aimed at creating a more welcoming and inclusive environment here at Wickford. The Start With Hello campaign and the Kindness Challenge have helped to strengthen community connections within our school. We look forward to continuing this work in the coming years as we progress towards our goal of helping students with social and emotional well being.

Academic rigor is a key component to our curriculums at Wickford Middle School. We believe in holding students to high standards and our students routinely meet and exceed our expectations in the classroom, in extracurricular activities, and on district and statewide assessments. During the 2017-18 school year, our students earned some of the highest scores in both the ELA and Math RICAS assessments of any middle school in the state. WMS was one of three middle schools statewide to receive 5 out of 5 stars in the new RIDE Accountability System. We are very proud of these results and they are a testament to the hard work and dedication of both our teachers and students.

In addition to our core academic subjects, WMS students take classes in art, music, shop, robotics, technology, research skills, STEAM, physical education/health, and foreign language. Our staff incorporates technology into their lessons as we recognize the need to build the capacity of our students to succeed in the 21st century. As a school, we emphasize the importance of building skills in the areas of communication, collaboration, and problem solving. In doing so, we look to give our students the necessary skills and competencies they will need to be successful in high school, college, and careers.