Summary:
Newark CCSD 66 has two schools serving 205 students: Newark Elementary School serves PK–4 and Millbrook Junior High School serves grades 5–8. In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades ELA results were above the state’s 56%: Newark Elementary scored 69% and Millbrook 75%. Math was less consistent: Newark Elementary scored 51% against the state’s 40%, while Millbrook scored 38%. The clearest shared strength across the area is ELA, while math results vary by school.
Millbrook stands out in ELA, with a 75% all-grades result, 19 percentage points above the state; its grade 8 result was 93%, compared with 63% statewide, a 30-point advantage. Newark Elementary stands out in all-grades math at 51%, 12 points above the state, while Millbrook was 2 points below it. Millbrook’s science results were also above the state in grades 5 and 8, by 7 and 16 points, respectively. Because the schools serve different grades, their all-grades results are not like-for-like comparisons.
ELA results fell between 2024–25 and 2025–26 at both schools: by 2 percentage points at Newark Elementary and 8 at Millbrook, narrowing their advantages over the state by 5 and 11 points. Math moved in different directions: Newark Elementary’s result declined by 8 points, while Millbrook’s rose by 4. SchoolDigger gives both schools four stars; its latest rankings place Millbrook 190th of 1,126 schools (83rd percentile) and Newark Elementary 379th of 1,737 (78th percentile). Their reported student-teacher ratios are similar—10.7 at Millbrook and 10.9 at Newark Elementary—and free/reduced lunch eligibility was 25% and 23%, respectively, in school year 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was also low at both schools in 2025–26: 6% at each, compared with 24% statewide.
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