Livingston County

Livingston County has four schools serving elementary through high school grades, with two elementary schools and one each for middle and high school. The 2025–2026 results show a wide range of performance across the area. The clearest overall finding is that South Livingston Elementary School scored above state levels in all four reported reading grades, while Livingston County Middle School scored below state levels in every reported eighth-grade subject.

South Livingston Elementary School stands out among the elementary schools: its reading proficiency was 56%, 53%, 68%, and 63% in grades 3–6, or 3 to 17 points above state results. Its fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics score was 68%, compared with 33% at North Livingston Elementary School and 48% statewide. North’s bright spot was reading growth: third- and fourth-grade results rose 18 and 14 points, and it led South by 1 point in third-grade reading. The middle school’s largest shortfall was eighth-grade math, at 19% versus 39% statewide. Livingston Central High School paired strong completion figures—100% graduation and 0% dropout, versus 94% and 1% statewide—with declines in five of six matched subject scores.

Across 24 subject-and-grade results with scores in both years, school proficiency fell by an average of 6 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while state results were unchanged on average. North’s three matched results rose by an average of 7 points; South’s 10 fell by 9, and the middle and high schools each fell by about 7. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking rose for North, from 20 to 37, but fell for South, from 77 to 64, the middle school, from 35 to 16, and the high school, from 84 to 55. For context, 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 66% at North and 58% at South; student-teacher ratios were 12.1 and 18.6, respectively. These figures describe school context but do not explain the differences in results.