Summary:
Burton Elementary has four schools, all serving kindergarten through grade 6, with enrollments from 393 to 499 students. In 2025–2026, their simple four-school averages were 35% in ELA, 25% in math, and 23% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The group was closest to the state in science and farthest behind in ELA, but no subject average reached the state result. The most important finding is that school and grade-level results vary substantially, so an area-wide average can hide very different experiences.
Oak Grove Elementary stands out in all-grades math and science, while Jim Maples Academy had the lowest all-grades result in every subject. Oak Grove scored 30% in math and 33% in science; Jim Maples scored 18% and 15%. In science, Oak Grove was 9 points above the school average and 3 below the state, while Jim Maples was 9 below the school average. William R. Buckley Elementary led ELA at 38%, compared with Jim Maples at 30%. Leaders in individual grades can differ: Oak Grove led grade 6 ELA at 55%, above the state’s 48%, but had the lowest grade 3 ELA result among the schools at 20%.
Recent changes were mixed, and the group fell further behind the state in each subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its ELA average rose less than the state’s (up 0.31 points versus 0.46), math fell 1.46 points while the state rose 1.05, and science rose 1.31 points while the state rose 3.34. SchoolDigger rank-history percentiles also declined for all four schools between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026, from 41 to 36 for Buckley, 22 to 16 for Jim Maples, 35 to 29 for Burton Elementary, and 43 to 40 for Oak Grove. Staffing ratios were similar, from 24.5 students per teacher at Oak Grove and Jim Maples to 25.7 at Burton. For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures ranged from 83% at Buckley to 89% at Jim Maples; these are contextual measures, not explanations for results.
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