The top reported proficiency rate is 84% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Daniels Farm School
Daniels Farm School is a small, K-5 elementary school in Trumbull, Connecticut, sitting in a suburban town that blends established neighborhoods with commercial retail anchors and is now undergoing steady mixed-use redevelopment around its shopping plazas.
The school serves roughly five hundred students across six grade levels. Enrollment skews toward a White student body, with Asian and Hispanic students each representing a modest presence, and a small share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on students receiving special education services or English learner support was not available.
On Connecticut's Smarter Balanced assessments, Daniels Farm students show strong proficiency across tested grades and subjects. In math, Grade 3 students reached a level that positions them in the top range among the school's cohorts, with proficiency highest in that grade and gradually declining through Grades 4 and 5. English language arts results follow a similar arc: Grade 3 posts the highest proficiency, with slight dips in Grade 4 before a rebound in Grade 5. Grade 5 science performance aligns with its ELA result. Across all tested subjects, the school's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile relative to other districts in the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region. State testing data for Grades K-2 does not exist because those grades are not assessed statewide.
Trumbull School District recently undertook a significant shift in its K-3 literacy instruction, adopting a science-of-reading framework with phonics emphasis and changing to the DIBELS and Fountas and Pinnell assessments. This curricular realignment means families with early-grade children are watching an implementation that the district sees as foundational. Federal COVID-relief grants that had funded extra literacy and math support staff at the elementary level ended after the 2023-2024 school year, and the district has had to taper or absorb those positions into its operating budget, resulting in reduced pandemic-era supplemental staffing.
Housing in Trumbull's 06611 zip code carries substantial value, and rents run proportionally high relative to national norms. The town itself sits in Fairfield County, a relatively affluent corridor, though Trumbull balances that affluence with light manufacturing and retail employment. Two major shopping malls and a developing mixed-use sector around Trumbull Center and Long Hill Green anchor the local economy, and the town recently completed a significant luxury apartment complex that began occupancy in 2023. The town is car-oriented, with pedestrian infrastructure concentrated in village nodes rather than throughout, though Long Hill neighborhood is regarded locally as walkable.
A parent choosing Daniels Farm would be enrolling a child in a school that performs well on state math and reading assessments relative to its regional peers, with the caveat that Grade 3 is a notable strength and proficiency gradually softens through the upper elementary grades. The shift to science-of-reading instruction in the district is new and worth understanding directly with the school. Enrollment is stable, the community is established and suburban, and the school's test-taking population is fully represented in state data, suggesting no significant access or engagement barriers. What is not available is information on class size, staffing ratios, special program offerings beyond the standard curriculum, or discipline and attendance patterns, so a parent may want to look into those directly with the school.
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