The reported proficiency rate for Math is 33%.
Original Research by School Decision on Washington Village School
Washington Village School sits in the town of Washington, Vermont, in Orange County, and serves children from prekindergarten through fourth grade. It is part of the Echo Valley Community Union School District. The school is a traditional public school, not a charter or magnet, and its enrollment is small, which is typical for a Vermont village elementary serving the earliest grades. Class sizes across the grade bands are modest, with prekindergarten the smallest group and the early elementary grades carrying the most students.
The student body is nearly entirely white, with a very small number of children identifying as Hispanic or as two or more races. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, which gives a picture of a working-class community. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status was not available, so those dimensions of student support cannot be described here. A parent wanting to understand special education services or language supports would need to ask the school or district directly.
On state testing, the picture is limited. The school's grade three math results from the Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program were reported, and proficiency was below where most families would want to see it, with only about a third of tested third graders scoring proficient or above. Because the school is small, many of the other tested cells were suppressed for privacy reasons, so grade four math and both grade three and four English language arts results are not available. This means a reader cannot form a full picture of academic performance from the state data alone, and the single reported result should be read as one narrow window rather than a school-wide judgment. No multi-year trend data was available either, so there is no way to tell from this data whether performance is improving, declining, or holding steady. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking about classroom-level assessment data, growth measures, and what instructional supports are in place.
Because Washington Village School ends at fourth grade, there is no graduation rate to report, and the school does not have the kind of career, dual-credit, or advanced coursework offerings that a secondary school might. Those gaps reflect the grade band, not a missing program. The school's core work is early literacy, early numeracy, and social development, and the available data does not speak to how those are delivered in practice. Information on programs, staffing ratios, attendance, chronic absenteeism, and discipline was not provided, so those pieces of the school environment are left out here rather than guessed.
The comparison set used for this school draws on districts in Orange County, but the cohort for meaningful proficiency comparison was too small to produce a reliable positioning, and graduation and attendance comparisons were not applicable. So this school cannot be cleanly ranked against its neighbors on the metrics a parent might expect.
On housing, the area around Washington is relatively affordable for Vermont. Typical home values sit below both the state and national benchmarks, and the estimated monthly mortgage cost is modest relative to incomes. Rent data was not available for the immediate area. The price-to-income ratio suggests that buying a home is within reach for many working households compared with much of the state, though current mortgage rates remain elevated. This is a rural community where housing costs are less of a barrier than in Vermont's more concentrated areas, and families drawn to a quiet, small-town setting may find the financial side approachable.
What the data can tell a parent is this: Washington Village School is a small, early-grades public school in an affordable rural Vermont community, serving a mostly white, mostly working-class population. The one state testing result available was not strong, but it is a narrow slice. Much of what would help a parent decide, including broader test results, staffing, programs, attendance, and special education detail, was not available in this data, and the gaps are named here so they are not mistaken for silence. A visit to the school and a conversation with the Echo Valley Community Union School District would be the natural next step.
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