The top reported proficiency rate is 57% in English language arts. The lowest is 42% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Georgia Elementary & Middle School
Georgia Elementary & Middle School sits on Ethan Allen Highway in the Saint Albans postal area and serves prekindergarten through eighth grade as part of the Georgia School District. It is a conventional public school, neither a charter nor a magnet, and it is the only school listed for this small district. With an enrollment in the low six hundreds, it is a mid-sized school for a Vermont preK-through-8 setting, and its grade-level cohorts are generally large enough to produce state testing results, though several were suppressed for the most recent year.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, reflecting the broader demographics of the Georgia and Saint Albans area. A substantial share of students, roughly a third, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on individualized education programs and English learner status were not reported, so those dimensions of student support cannot be characterized here. A parent wanting to understand special education or multilingual services would need to ask the school directly.
On state assessments, the most recent results tell a mixed but informative story. English language arts is the stronger subject. Third-grade ELA proficiency was solidly above the midpoint, and eighth-grade ELA was the school's best result, with a clear majority of tested students reaching proficiency. Seventh-grade ELA landed right around the middle. Fifth-grade ELA was weaker, with fewer than half of tested students proficient. In math, third grade landed at the midpoint, and eighth grade was close behind. Fifth-grade math was the softest result, with under a third of tested students proficient. Science was tested only in fifth and eighth grades, with eighth grade showing a slim majority proficient and fifth grade below that. Fourth, sixth, and seventh-grade math results, along with fourth and sixth-grade ELA, were suppressed, so a full grade-by-grade picture is not available. Participation rates were also not reported.
Because this school does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. That gap reflects the grade band, not a missing outcome.
The Saint Albans area, which serves as the broader community context, is a two-municipality place. The City of Saint Albans functions as the commercial and civic core of Franklin County, with a walkable Victorian downtown along Main Street, Taylor Park, restaurants, and the Amtrak Vermonter terminus. The surrounding Town is largely rural and residential, extending to Lake Champlain and St. Albans Bay. The area sits about thirty miles north of Burlington along the Interstate 89 corridor, and the Town of St. Albans describes itself as one of the fastest-growing communities in Vermont. Major employers include a federal USCIS service center, Northwestern Medical Center, Maple Run Unified School District, and pharmaceutical and dairy processing firms. The annual Vermont Maple Festival in late April and a Fourth of July Bay Day on the lake anchor civic life. Walkability is concentrated in the City center; the broader area is car-dependent. Georgia itself is a separate town just to the south of Saint Albans City, and the school's Ethan Allen Highway location places it along the Route 7 corridor connecting the two communities.
Housing in the school's zip code is moderate by Vermont standards, sitting below the statewide benchmark and only modestly above the national figure. Rental data was not available. The price-to-income ratio suggests the area is less affordable than the national average but not dramatically so, and housing values have risen only slightly year over year. For families considering a move, the housing market is less pressured than Burlington proper but reflects the commuter demand that growth in the area has brought.
The comparison set for this school, drawn from districts in Franklin County, could not produce meaningful peer benchmarks. The proficiency index was inapplicable due to a too-small cohort, and graduation and chronic absenteeism comparisons had no entity values to place. So positioning this school against its county neighbors is not possible from the available data.
What the picture supports is a reading of a school with solid upper-grade literacy results, middling math performance, and a particular soft spot in fifth-grade math. Families with children entering the later elementary and middle grades may find the ELA results encouraging and may want to look into the fifth-grade math results further with the school. The setting is a growing commuter community with a genuine small-town civic life and lake access, anchored between Burlington and the Canadian border.
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