Summary:
Schools in Cascade Union Elementary include four schools: three elementary schools serving kindergarten through grade 5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8, with enrollment ranging from 13 to 398 students. North State Aspire Academy’s proficiency results are state-suppressed. Among the other three schools, the 2025–26 unweighted average proficiency was 32% in ELA, 25% in math and 22% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38% and 36%. The most important area-wide finding is that the average for the three reporting schools fell below the state result in every subject.
Meadow Lane Elementary led in All Grades ELA and math, with 37% and 33% proficient—6 and 10 percentage points above the next-highest school, respectively, but still 13 and 6 points below the state. Anderson Middle led in science at 30%, just 1 point above Meadow Lane. Anderson Heights Elementary had the lowest science result, 5%—25 points below the next-lowest school—and the lowest All Grades ELA result, 28%. Elementary grade results add important nuance: Anderson Heights led Meadow Lane by 12 points in both third-grade ELA and math, while Meadow Lane led by 27 points in fourth-grade ELA and 25 points in fourth-grade math.
Recent results were mixed: the three-school average rose 5 percentage points in science from 2024–25 to 2025–26, fell 3 points in ELA and was essentially unchanged in math. Science gains at Meadow Lane and Anderson Middle were offset by a 14-point decline at Anderson Heights; its ELA result also fell 7 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide rankings from 2023–24 to 2025–26 moved from 46 to 39 for Meadow Lane, 31 to 28 for Anderson Middle, and 18 to 17 for Anderson Heights; their 2025–26 star ratings were 2, 1 and 1, respectively. All four schools report free/reduced lunch eligible (FRL) for 2024–25: 65% at Meadow Lane, 74% at Anderson Middle, 76% at Anderson Heights and 85% at North State Aspire. These figures provide context, not an explanation for achievement differences.
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