Germantown School District 60

Germantown School District 60 has one listed school, Germantown Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 258 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s all-grades results were 77% proficient in English language arts (ELA) and 73% in math, compared with 56% and 40% statewide; chronic absenteeism was 8%, versus 24% statewide. The clearest overall finding is that the school performed well above state results in both tested subjects, especially math.

There is no other listed school for a local comparison, so the strongest and weakest results are among grades at Germantown Elementary School. Grade 7 stood out, with 91% proficient in ELA and 81% in math—33 and 41 percentage points above state figures. Grade 5 was the school’s relative low point, at 64% in ELA and 61% in math, but still exceeded state results by 9 and 25 points. Every reported grade 3–8 result was above its state comparison. Science was also above state results: grade 5 scored 61% versus 48%, and grade 8 scored 72% versus 52%.

Math gains strengthened the school’s advantage, while ELA was nearly unchanged: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, math rose from 66% to 73% as the state moved from 39% to 40%, widening the school’s lead from 28 to 33 points; ELA stayed at 77.3% to 77.4% while the state rose from 53% to 56%, narrowing the lead from 24 to 21 points. Science trends differed by grade: grade 5 improved by 9 points, while grade 8 fell by 2 as the state rose by 7. SchoolDigger gives the district 5 stars and ranks it 53rd of 738 districts; the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 11.6, and 18% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These context figures describe the school but do not explain its results.