Oxford

Oxford has three schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Oxford Elementary (201 students, grades PK–6), Oxford Junior/Senior High (195 students, grades 7–12), and Oxford Online Virtual School (51 students, grades 1–12). The overall picture is mixed: the simple average of the schools’ 2025–26 all-grades results is below the state in English language arts, math, and science, with the largest gap in science—10 percentage points.

Oxford Elementary stands out at the top in all-grades ELA, with 66% proficiency, 20 points above the state; its 42% in science is also 4 points above. The two traditional schools are nearly tied in math: the high school has 48.6% proficiency and the elementary school 48.5%, each about 8 points above the state. Oxford Online Virtual School is lowest in all three subjects: its 27% in ELA, 18% in math, and 6% in science are 19, 23, and 32 points below state results. Similar gaps appear in shared secondary grades: virtual-school grade 10 ELA and math are each 23 points below the high school, and grade 11 science is 25 points lower.

Recent changes differ by school. The high school improved 8 points in ELA and 5 in math from 2024–25 to 2025–26, while the virtual school’s ELA fell 13 points; elementary results fell 2 points in ELA, 3 in math, and 19 in science. Elementary grade-level results also vary: third- and fourth-grade math are above state levels, but fifth-grade math is 18 points below. Context measures do not by themselves explain these differences: the elementary and high schools have similar enrollments, student-teacher ratios of 10.2 and 12.9, and free/reduced-lunch rates of 50% and 37%. The virtual school reports 0% chronic absenteeism, yet its graduation rate is 83%, below the state’s 90%; the high school has 22% chronic absenteeism but a 100% graduation rate. Virtual-school results may be sensitive to its small enrollment, and the schools serve different grade spans.