The top reported proficiency rate is 75% in Math. The lowest is 61% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Lewiston School
Lewiston School serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in the small, rural agricultural community of Lewiston, Utah, a town of triangular shape set between the Bear and Cub Rivers in Cache Valley. The school is part of Cache District, a countywide system that recently passed a general obligation bond to build new schools and adjust grade configurations across the district.
The student body is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population making up a notable share and very small numbers of Black, Asian, and American Indian students present. Just under half of the students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that positions the school as serving a moderate-to-high share of economically disadvantaged households relative to some of its Cache County peers.
On state assessments, Lewiston School produces test results that the data group places in the top quartile among districts in Cache County, meaning its overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades sits on the higher end of the local range. In math, about three-quarters of students scored at the proficient level or above. In science, a similar share, roughly seven in ten, reached that same benchmark. English language arts proficiency was lower, at about three in five students. The ELA figure is the subject where a parent may want to look into this further with the school, as it trails the other two subjects by a noticeable margin. Because Lewiston School serves only elementary and middle grades, there is no high school graduation rate to report.
The academic performance data carries a note that the cut scores for ELA changed in a recent year, which can make year-over-year comparisons unreliable. The data set does not include trend results from multiple years, so it is not possible to tell from this evidence whether the proficiency picture is improving or declining.
Lewiston itself is a low-density, car-dependent community built on an agricultural grid of farms rather than a compact village center. A small downtown holds a bank and a drug store, and the city maintains a library, a historic community building, parks, and a cemetery. Most residents work in dairying, livestock, or crop agriculture, and some supplement farm income with jobs in Logan or nearby Preston, Idaho. Population growth has been gradual and modest, consistent with the town's rural character. Home values are somewhat above the national median rent-to-income ratio suggests that renting here is less expensive relative to income than in many parts of the country.
Because this is a pre-K through sixth-grade school, there are no high school program offerings such as Advanced Placement, concurrent enrollment, or career-technical pathways to report. That is not a gap in the school's programming; it reflects the grade band it serves. A parent looking ahead to secondary options would need to consider where their child would attend after sixth grade under Cache District's current configuration, which the district's bond plan is set to change by building new middle schools and shifting sixth grade back into a middle school setting.
Civil rights data, chronic absenteeism, discipline records, and staffing information were not available in the data provided. For a family considering this school, those are reasonable topics to raise directly with the principal or district office to get a fuller picture of the day-to-day environment and student support systems.
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