The top reported proficiency rate is 57% in English language arts. The lowest is 43% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Cambridge Elementary School
Cambridge Elementary School sits in the village of Jeffersonville, a small incorporated community within the town of Cambridge in Lamoille County, Vermont. The village has a compact historic core along Main Street, with art galleries, a fly shop, and other small businesses clustered near the Lamoille River. Smugglers' Notch Resort, a major regional employer, lies a short drive to the south, and the village sits at the crossroads of two state routes. The local economy draws from health care and social assistance, educational services, and public administration, with the resort providing seasonal and recreational employment nearby. The population has been stable to slightly declining, and available research points to a low homeownership rate, suggesting a larger share of rental housing than might be expected for a rural Vermont village.
The school serves pre-kindergarten through sixth grade and is the community's primary educational anchor. After sixth grade, students move on to Lamoille Union Middle School and then Lamoille Union High School, both located in Hyde Park, separating secondary education from the village center. Cambridge Elementary itself is small for its grade band, with roughly even class sizes from kindergarten through sixth grade and a sizable pre-kindergarten cohort. The student body is predominantly white, with a very small number of students identifying as Black, Hispanic, or multiracial. About half the enrollment qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a moderate range for economic need among Vermont elementary schools. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so those population sizes remain unknown here.
Academically, the most recent state assessment results tell a mixed but improving story as students move through the grades. In English language arts, proficiency rates are fairly steady from third through sixth grade, landing in a moderate range that holds consistent across grade levels. This suggests the school is producing stable literacy outcomes as cohorts advance. Math follows a different pattern. Third and fourth grade proficiency comes in lower, with fewer than half of tested students meeting the proficiency bar. By fifth and sixth grade, math results climb notably, with a majority of students reaching proficiency in both grades. Science is assessed only in fifth grade at this level, and the result there sits in the same moderate range as English language arts. Participation rates were not reported for any subject or grade. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say whether these patterns represent improvement over time or a consistent cohort effect.
The comparison fact-set positions Cambridge Elementary relative to districts in Lamoille County, but the county cohort is small enough that the proficiency index could not be computed for comparison. Graduation rate does not apply to this school because it does not serve high school grades. Chronic absenteeism data was not available. A parent wanting to understand how the school stacks up against nearby districts may want to look into this further with the school or the state report card, since the comparison tools could not produce a read here.
Housing in the school's zip code sits just below the state benchmark and slightly above the national one, with a modest year-over-year decline in value. Rent data was not available for this area. The price-to-income ratio is elevated relative to national norms, and current mortgage rates remain high, which affects affordability for families looking to buy. No major new housing developments surfaced in available research on the village.
The district brief returned no parent-relevant changes, meaning no recent budget votes, referendums, or curriculum shifts were identified in the search. Title I status was not reported for this school. Information on staffing, course access, discipline, and attendance was not available. Cambridge Elementary appears to be a quiet, small-town elementary school with steady literacy results, improving math outcomes in the upper grades, and a student population that reflects the working character of the surrounding village.
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