Hebron Elementary School, Hebron CT

Original Research by School Decision on Hebron Elementary School

Hebron Elementary School serves grades three through six in a small rural New England town in eastern Connecticut. The school enrolls a modest number of students across four grade levels, drawn almost entirely from Hebron's predominantly white, affluent residential community. The town itself is a low-density place of single-family homes with slow recent population growth and an older median age, where civic life centers on a defined town center rather than sprawling development.

Academic performance at Hebron Elementary reads as solid across tested subjects. In English language arts, students across the school achieved proficiency at a rate somewhat above the midpoint among the county's districts, with grade four performing noticeably stronger than other grades. Mathematics proficiency also sits above the midpoint county-wide. Science results, available for grade five only, show strong performance. Student test participation is consistently near or at complete. Strength appears across reading and math, with a dip in math proficiency in grade five that recovers slightly in grade six. Grade four stands out as the school's highest-performing year in both literacy and math. No prior-year trend data was available to assess whether performance is rising, falling, or holding steady over time.

The school's student body is economically advantaged overall, with only a small share qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Racial composition is roughly consistent with the town itself: the vast majority of students are white, with small numbers of students identifying as Hispanic, Asian, Black, or multiracial. Data on students receiving special education services or identified as English learners was not available, making it impossible to characterize the school's support infrastructure for those populations or their outcomes.

Hebron sits in an affluent housing market where median home values are above state and national benchmarks. The town is experiencing measured growth after a prior decade-long decline in population; new development is concentrated in a planned mixed-use district adjacent to the town center, incorporating some age-restricted and affordable units. The district faces an ongoing, publicly reported tension over funding: Hebron voters have repeatedly rejected the regional District 8 budget that funds the middle and high schools serving Hebron's secondary students, a dynamic that creates uncertainty about resources for the pathway forward after elementary grades. The district has permanently funded student mental health supports through the local budget, moving these services from temporary state grant dependence to ongoing local investment, which matters for families counting on counseling and social-emotional services to continue.

Hebron Elementary appears to serve its community's academic baseline competently, with a peer group of students from stable, resourced households. A parent considering the school would want to understand the nature of that secondary funding tension and to ask directly about special education and English learner capacity, since those details were not publicly available.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 364%

School 64% · District 64%

▲ 9 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 471%

School 71% · District 71%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 561%

School 61% · District 61%

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 660%

School 60% · District 60%

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 365%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 475%

School 75% · District 75%

▲ 19 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 570%

School 70% · District 70%

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 665%

School 65% · District 65%

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Science

Grade 573%

School 73% · District 73%

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

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Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.