Summary:
Zip code 41092 has two Walton-Verona Independent schools serving kindergarten through grade 5: Walton-Verona Elementary School serves K–3, and Walton-Verona Intermediate School serves grades 4–5, with 821 students combined. The clearest area-wide strength is that all ten reported 2025–2026 test results are above their grade-specific state benchmarks, by 1 to 24 percentage points.
Walton-Verona Elementary stands out in third-grade mathematics: 67% of students were proficient, 24 points above the state’s 43%; its reading result was 58%, 9 points above the state. At Walton-Verona Intermediate, the strongest state-relative results were fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics (69%, 21 points above the state) and fourth-grade science (50%, 10 points above). Its closest result to the state benchmark was fifth-grade mathematics: 44%, just 1 point higher. Because the schools test different grades, the results do not support a fair overall test-score ranking between them.
Recent results show different patterns by subject at Elementary: third-grade math proficiency rose from 54% in 2024–2025 to 67% in 2025–2026, while reading held at 58%; the math advantage over the state widened from 11 to 24 points, while the reading advantage narrowed from 11 to 9. SchoolDigger’s ranking for Elementary worsened from 116 of 684 in 2021–2022 to 270 of 685 in 2023–2024; it lists Intermediate at 204 of 684, with four stars, in 2025–2026, while Elementary’s latest supplied rating is three stars. In 2024–2025, their student–teacher ratios were similar (14.9:1 and 14.8:1), and free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 43% and 39%, respectively. Those figures describe context, not what explains achievement.
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