Summary:
ZIP code 62468 has three schools in Cumberland Elementary School (PK–4), Cumberland Middle School (grades 5–8), and Cumberland High School (grades 9–12), all in Cumberland CUSD 77. Together they enroll 972 students, with school enrollments ranging from 282 to 387. Results are uneven across schools and grades; the sharpest warning sign is the high school’s grade-11 ACT science score, which fell 42 points from 80% in 2024–2025 to 38% in 2025–2026.
Cumberland Elementary stands out in math: its all-grades result was 49%, 10 points above the state’s 40%, while its ELA result was 53%, 3 points below the state. At Cumberland Middle, eighth grade was a bright spot, with 80% proficient in ELA and 54% in math—17 and 19 points above state results. But seventh grade was much weaker: 25% in ELA and 17% in math, 33 and 22 points below the state. Cumberland High was below state results in all three grade-11 ACT subjects in 2025–2026: by 16 points in ELA, 10 in math, and 10 in science.
Recent trends offer a mixed picture: Middle’s all-grades results improved 12 points in ELA and 7 in math, while Elementary’s math score fell 7 points and its state advantage narrowed from 18 to 10 points. High’s grade-11 ACT scores fell 18 points in ELA and 20 in math as well as 42 in science; the prior year, its results were above the state in all three subjects. SchoolDigger’s 2025–2026 statewide rankings were 909 of 1,737 for Elementary (48th percentile, 2 stars), 666 of 1,126 for Middle (41st percentile, 2 stars), and 440 of 620 for High (29th percentile, 1 star). For context, 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios were 11.5 at Elementary, 20 at Middle, and 13 at High; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 26% at Elementary, 35.8% at Middle, and 35.6% at High. Year-to-year test results describe different school-year results, not the progress of the same students.
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