Summary:
Weldon has one listed school, South Fork Elementary, serving grades K–8 and 348 students, so families have no local school-to-school comparison. Its 2025–2026 all-grades proficiency was 40% in ELA and 28% in math, compared with 49% and 38% statewide; science was a little above the state at 37% versus 36%. The most important finding is that math is the clearest overall challenge: proficiency was 10 points below the state, and the school was below the state in every tested grade except eighth.
Eighth grade is the clear standout, while results in grades three through seven lagged in both ELA and math. In eighth grade, proficiency was 53% in ELA, 51% in math, and 45% in science, beating the state by 4, 15, and 9 points, respectively. At the other end, fourth-grade ELA was 23% versus 46% statewide, and fourth-grade math was 20% versus 42%—about 22 points lower in each subject. Across all grades, ELA was 10 points below the state and math 10 points below; science was 1 point above.
Recent results show a mixed picture, not a uniform decline: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose about 1 point and science rose 5, while math fell 2 points. The math gap with the state widened from 7 points to 10; science moved from slightly below to slightly above the state, and the ELA gap narrowed slightly. Separately, SchoolDigger’s percentile rank fell from 43 in 2023–2024 to 29 and then 28, a 15-point drop. The student-teacher ratio was 19.4 in 2024–2025, and 79% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; chronic absenteeism was 21% versus 18% statewide in 2025–2026. These are useful context figures, not explanations for the test results.
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