Summary:
Cumberland County has three public schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: an elementary school, a middle school and a high school. Across 25 reported 2025–2026 results, students averaged 42% proficient, compared with 43% for the state. But results varied considerably by subject and grade, from 11 points above the state to 11 points below; the most important takeaway is that the area’s overall results are close to the state, but that average masks distinct strengths and weaknesses.
The high school stood out in grade 10 reading, with 60% proficient versus 49% statewide, while its grade 11 social studies result was among the lowest at 27% versus 37%. The middle school had the strongest reported writing result: grade 8 was 58% versus 48% statewide, and editing and mechanics was 48% versus 42%; its grade 7 reading result was 41% versus 50%. At the elementary school, grade 3 reading was 53% versus 49%, but grade 5 mathematics was 32% versus 43%. Because the schools serve different grades, these results are not direct school-to-school comparisons.
Elementary results improved relative to the state in 9 of 10 comparable subject-and-grade areas from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, though grade 4 science fell from 46% to 43%. The overall area-to-state gap was essentially unchanged across the two years; school-level patterns differed, with the elementary school improving its average gap from about 7 points below the state to about 2 below, while the high school moved from about 6 points above to about 1 below. SchoolDigger’s percentile rose 11 points for the elementary school and 1 for the middle school, but fell 24 for the high school. As context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 76% at the elementary, 79% at the middle and 75% at the high school; student-teacher ratios ranged from 14.9 to 15.7. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 23% at the elementary school, compared with 34% at each of the other two schools.
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