The top reported proficiency rate is 38% in English language arts. The lowest is 17% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Hyde Park Elementary School
Hyde Park Elementary School sits in the village center of Hyde Park, the shire town of Lamoille County, along East Main Street. It is a public pre-kindergarten through sixth-grade school serving the town's children as part of Lamoille North Modified Union School District. The setting is rural and residential. Hyde Park itself blends a small incorporated village, where the courthouse, municipal offices, and Lanpher Memorial Library cluster along Route 15, with outlying settlements at North Hyde Park and Centerville. The town is car-dependent outside the village core, and Green River Reservoir State Park, the largest non-motorized lake in Vermont, anchors its recreational identity. The school campus is distinct from the village center; older students move on to Lamoille Union High School and Green Mountain Technical and Career Center, which sit on a separate campus in town and draw from six communities across the region.
The school is small for its grade band, with a modest enrollment spread across pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is almost entirely white, with very few students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not available in the records we reviewed. Hyde Park is not a charter school and not a magnet school.
State assessment results from the most recent year under the Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program show mixed performance across grade levels, with some notable variation between subjects and grades. In English language arts, third graders performed comparatively well, with a clear majority reaching proficiency. Fourth grade results were moderate, and sixth grade landed in a middling range. Fifth grade ELA was a soft spot, with only a small fraction of students demonstrating proficiency. Math results followed a similar uneven pattern. Sixth grade math was the strongest result in the school, with a respectable share of students proficient. Third grade math was moderate, fourth grade lower, and fifth grade math was the weakest result across all subjects and grades tested. Science, assessed only in fifth grade, was also low, with few students reaching proficiency. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these results represent a recent dip or a longer-standing pattern. Participation rates were not reported. Given the small number of students tested in each grade, year-to-year results can swing widely, and a parent may want to ask the school how it is responding to these results, particularly in fifth grade across both tested subjects.
The broader community context is one of a stable rural town with civic-governmental functions rather than private-sector industry. Major employers in the area are institutional: the county court system, the school district itself, and municipal government. No large private employers surfaced in publicly reported sources. The housing market in Hyde Park's zip code sits close to the state benchmark and modestly above the national benchmark, with typical home values in a range that suggests a somewhat expensive market relative to national norms but roughly in line with Vermont overall. Rent data was not available. The price-to-income ratio indicates that purchasing a home here requires a financial stretch typical of much of Vermont. At the district level, the proposed budget for the coming fiscal year includes an increase in education spending per pupil, which in Vermont's funding model flows directly into homestead property tax rates. This is a consideration for families weighing the tax burden alongside school quality.
We looked for program offerings, staffing details, discipline data, chronic absenteeism figures, and course access information, but none were available in the records provided. The same gap applies to civil-rights data. The county-level comparison set for Lamoille County districts was too small to generate a meaningful proficiency index for this school, and graduation and attendance comparisons were not applicable because this is an elementary school that does not award diplomas and those data fields were not reported. These absences reflect the school's grade band rather than any indication of weakness.
For a family considering Hyde Park Elementary, the picture is one of a small, community-rooted rural school in a civic-minded county seat. The academic results are uneven, with genuine strengths in early literacy and upper-grade math but real concerns in fifth grade and science. The town offers a quiet, outdoors-oriented lifestyle with regional road connections to Johnson, Morrisville, Stowe, and Hardwick, and it is within driving distance of Burlington and Montpelier. Families drawn to that setting who want a small school where their child will be known may find a fit here, with the understanding that the academic picture warrants direct conversation with school staff.
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