The top reported proficiency rate is 70% in Math. The lowest is 61% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Moody School
Moody School is a small elementary school serving kindergarten through fifth grade in Middletown, a river city anchored by a historic Main Street, Wesleyan University, and a mix of aerospace, healthcare, insurance, and state-sector employers. The school sits in a community undergoing substantial riverfront redevelopment while managing near-term school infrastructure changes.
The school's enrollment is modest, with a student body drawn from a racially and ethnically diverse mix. Just over a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The enrollment is fairly balanced across grades, with slightly smaller cohorts in second grade.
On state assessments, Moody shows middle-range performance with a notable grade-to-grade variation pattern. In math, fourth grade stands out with much stronger proficiency than third grade; fifth-grade data on proficiency was not publicly available. In English language arts, fourth-grade proficiency is solid, while both third and fifth grades show lower results. Fifth-grade science proficiency also falls below the performance in other subjects. Overall across all tested subjects and grades, the school's proficiency index places it above the midpoint relative to other districts in the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region.
The school does not have reported data on chronic absenteeism, special education enrollment rates, or English learner enrollment, so parents interested in those details would benefit from asking the school directly.
Middletown itself is a walkable downtown with a dense commercial core, though the city as a whole is car-dependent in residential areas. The city is in the early stages of a large-scale riverfront redevelopment aimed at reconnecting public life to the Connecticut River. At the district level, the Macdonough Elementary School is currently undergoing a full reconstruction; Macdonough students have been temporarily relocated to a nearby site for the duration of the project, which will take up to several years. This is a district-wide disruption but backed by significant state funding that keeps most costs off local taxpayers. Moody families would not experience that displacement, but they are part of a district managing substantial capital change.
Housing values in the area reflect modest appreciation, and median household income for the region sits in the lower-to-mid range. Mortgage and rent affordability metrics place the area somewhat above the national benchmark for price-to-income ratio, though not severely. The economic context shows stable employment with unemployment rates in line with national figures.
Parents choosing Moody would be selecting a small, mixed elementary school in a riverfront community in mid-transition, with test results that are steady and above regional midpoint but uneven across grades, and with district-level infrastructure investment underway.
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