Cambridge CUSD 227

Cambridge CUSD 227 has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Cambridge Community Grade School (222 students) and Cambridge Junior/Senior High School (237 students). In 2025–26, the grade school reported 72% proficiency in all-grades IAR English language arts (ELA) and 54% in math; the junior/senior high reported 71% and 53%. Both were well above state results—56% in ELA and 40% in math—and the schools’ differences were small: about 2 percentage points in ELA and 1 in math. The clearest takeaway is that both schools’ reported all-grades IAR results are strong relative to the state, rather than one school substantially outpacing the other.

Cambridge Community Grade School leads the all-grades comparisons, with state advantages of 16 points in ELA and 15 in math; its grade 5 science result also stands out at 68%, 20 points above the state. The clearest exception is at Cambridge Junior/Senior High School: its 11th-grade ACT ELA result was 43% versus 50% statewide, and its math result was 33% versus 40%. Its ACT science result was stronger, at 57% versus 48%. Within the junior/senior high school, 7th-grade ELA was only about 2 points above the state, while 7th-grade math was 22 points above.

Recent trends favor the junior/senior high school in IAR improvement: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, its ELA rose 10 points and math 9, while the grade school’s ELA rose 1 point and its math fell 7. SchoolDigger’s reported percentile rose from 58 to 73 for the junior/senior high school, with its stars moving from 3 to 4; the grade school’s percentile fell from 91 to 74 and its stars from 5 to 4. Both currently have four stars. As context, 2024–25 student–teacher ratios were 11.2 at the junior/senior high school and 12.9 at the grade school; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 48% and 46%, respectively. These measures describe the schools but do not establish what explains their results.