Summary:
The Village Charter School is a one-school area in Trenton: The Village Charter School serves kindergarten through grade 8 and enrolls 361 students. In 2025–26, its average results across tested grades were 27% in English Language Arts (ELA), 20% in mathematics and 4% in science, compared with state averages of 51%, 40% and 23%, respectively. The most important finding is that the school scored below the state in every reported grade and subject.
Within the school, the strongest results were in grade 3 ELA and mathematics: 35% in ELA, 13 points below the state, and 38% in mathematics, 12 points below. The weakest results were grade 6 ELA, at 15% versus 51% statewide, a 36-point gap, and grade 5 mathematics, at 5% versus 46%, a 41-point gap. Science results were also very low: grade 8 was higher than grade 5, at 5% versus 3%, but both were below state results—19% in grade 8 and 27% in grade 5. These grade-level highs and lows are not comparisons between schools.
Overall trends were mixed, with the ELA gap widening from 22 points in 2024–25 to 24 points in 2025–26, and the mathematics gap widening from 20 to 21 points; the science gap narrowed from 21 to 20 points. Grade 3 improved notably—mathematics rose from 28% to 38%—while grade 5 mathematics fell from 15% to 5%. SchoolDigger lists the school at the 15th percentile in 2023–24 and the 12th percentile in both 2024–25 and 2025–26, with a 0-star rating. Context measures include an 11.6 student–teacher ratio and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. Chronic absenteeism that year was 19% at the school, compared with 14% statewide.
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