The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in English language arts. The lowest is 8% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Wallingford Village School
Wallingford Village School sits on School Street in the small Rutland County town of Wallingford, serving children from prekindergarten through sixth grade as part of the Mill River Unified Union School District. It is a small school by any measure, with an enrollment that keeps class sizes intimate and the peer environment tight-knit. The student body is overwhelmingly white, reflecting the broader community, and a substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. That is simply a function of the grade band, not a gap in the record.
On Vermont's Comprehensive Assessment Program for the most recent reported year, results are thin and largely concerning. In third-grade math, a small fraction of tested students reached proficiency. In fourth-grade math, no tested students met the proficiency bar. English language arts results were somewhat better but still modest, with somewhere between a quarter and roughly two-fifths of tested students demonstrating proficiency in grades three and four. Grade five and grade six results in both math and ELA were suppressed, as was fifth-grade science. Suppression at this school almost certainly reflects the very small number of test-takers in each grade rather than any academic determination, but it does mean a parent has limited state-testing evidence to work with. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking how classroom-level assessments and growth measures fill in the picture that the state test cannot provide here. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results are improving, declining, or holding steady.
The town of Wallingford is rural, with an aging population and a median age in the mid-forties as of the most recent census data. Its Main Street and the Otter Creek Valley farming area were added to the National Register of Historic Places in the early 1980s, and the community has worked to preserve that historic character. Publicly reported town materials mention a Neighborhood Watch program and a Declaration of Inclusion adopted by the Selectboard. A Bridge 15 project involving a potential permanent closure and a possible new pedestrian bridge has been under discussion. Specific major new housing developments are not prominently documented, and the town appears to be experiencing slow growth consistent with its rural Vermont setting.
Housing in the area is relatively affordable compared with both state and national benchmarks. The typical home value sits below the Vermont statewide figure and below the national figure, which may make the area accessible to families looking to buy, though current mortgage rates add pressure to monthly costs. Rental data was not available for this zip code.
The comparison fact-set for Rutland County districts could not position this school meaningfully against its neighbors. The proficiency index was not computable because the cohort was too small, the graduation rate does not apply to an elementary school, and chronic absenteeism data was not reported. So a parent cannot look to this school's standing among county peers for guidance. What is left is a small, community-rooted elementary school in an affordable rural town with limited but real academic data showing low proficiency in the grades where results were reported. A family considering Wallingford Village would want to visit, talk with teachers and the principal about how the school supports each child beyond what state testing captures, and understand how the transition to middle and high school works within the Mill River district.
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