Hinesburg Community School, Hinesburg VT

Original Research by School Decision on Hinesburg Community School

Hinesburg Community School sits along Route 116 in Hinesburg, Vermont, serving students from prekindergarten through eighth grade as part of the Champlain Valley Unified Union School District. The school enrolls roughly 485 students across its grade bands, with fairly even distribution from kindergarten through seventh grade and a somewhat larger eighth-grade cohort. The student body is predominantly white, with small representations of Hispanic, multiracial, Asian, and Black students. About three in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The data does not include IEP or English learner counts, so those population figures are not available here.

On Vermont's Comprehensive Assessment Program for the 2023-24 school year, Hinesburg's results tell a mixed but generally solid story. English language arts is the school's clearer strength. Proficiency rates across grades three through eight mostly sit in a comfortable range, with fourth grade standing out as particularly strong and the remaining grades holding steady at solid majorities of students meeting or exceeding the standard. The picture in math is more uneven. Third and eighth grade show lower proficiency, with fewer than half of tested students reaching the bar, while the middle grades, five through seven, perform notably better, with clear majorities proficient. Science, tested only in fifth and eighth grade, lands in a moderate range, with fifth grade outperforming eighth. A parent noticing the lower third-grade math and eighth-grade math and science results may want to look into this further with the school, as these are the soft spots in an otherwise respectable set of scores.

Because Hinesburg Community School does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. The comparison set the data provides, relative to districts in Chittenden County, could not produce proficiency index, graduation, or chronic absenteeism comparisons for this school, so there is no neighbor benchmark to set these results against in this brief. Chronic absenteeism data was not available either. Multi-year trend data was not provided, so there is no way to characterize whether these scores are rising or falling over time.

The housing market in Hinesburg's zip code is expensive relative to both state and national benchmarks. The typical home value sits well above the Vermont statewide figure and the national median, and the estimated monthly mortgage cost is substantial at current interest rates. Rent data was not available for this location. The price-to-income ratio is high, meaning a family buying here would need a strong income relative to the typical home price. This is a community where housing costs are a real factor in school choice, and families considering Hinesburg should weigh that cost against the academic offering.

No locale brief or district brief was provided in the data, so there is no additional community context, district strategic direction, or recent changes to report. Program offerings, course access, staffing details, discipline data, and attendance information were also absent, so this account cannot speak to extracurriculars, specialized programs, or classroom resources beyond what the assessment results imply. Title I status was not reported, and the school is neither a charter nor a magnet school.

What the available data does say is this: Hinesburg Community School is a mid-sized prekindergarten through eighth grade school with a mostly strong English language arts program, a math program that performs well in the middle grades but shows weakness at the entry and exit points, and a science program that is adequate. The student body is largely homogeneous. Housing in the area is costly. Families drawn to the Champlain Valley district and able to manage the local housing market will find a school with solid academic fundamentals and room to ask questions about where the weaker grades' math results point.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 339%

School 39% · district not reported

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 452%

School 52% · district not reported

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

Grade 567%

School 67% · district not reported

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Grade 668%

School 68% · district not reported

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 762%

School 62% · district not reported

▲ 21 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 845%

School 45% · district not reported

▲ 12 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 362%

School 62% · district not reported

▲ 16 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

Grade 478%

School 78% · district not reported

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

Grade 571%

School 71% · district not reported

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

Grade 670%

School 70% · district not reported

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 772%

School 72% · district not reported

▲ 14 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 860%

School 60% · district not reported

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Science

Grade 562%

School 62% · district not reported

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

Grade 852%

School 52% · district not reported

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

This schoolDistrict average, same grade

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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income69%19 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income39%Higher-income73%35 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income50%Higher-income71%21 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income90%44 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income20%Higher-income72%52 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income25%Higher-income47%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income39%Higher-income61%23 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income14%Higher-income58%44 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income46%Higher-income86%40 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income18%Higher-income36%18 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income27%Higher-income82%54 pp gap