Afton

The two schools in Afton Elementary School (PK–8) and Afton High School (grades 9–12) serve students in the Afton area. Their 2025–2026 results show different strengths: Elementary’s all-grades math proficiency was 47%, 22 points above the state’s 25%, while High’s ELA proficiency was 62%, 36 points above the state’s 26%. Other subjects were less favorable: Elementary science was 25%, 5 points below the state, and High was below the state in math (14% versus 25%), science (17% versus 30%), and U.S. History (37% versus 41%). The key takeaway is that the schools’ strengths are split by subject, rather than one school leading across the board.

Elementary stands out most in math, especially in grades 3 and 4: its results were 72% and 74%, respectively, compared with 33% statewide in each grade. High’s strongest grade-level result was 11th-grade ELA at 62%, 26 points above the state’s 36%. At the lower end, High’s all-grades math result was 11 points below the state, while its science result was 13 points below; Elementary’s weakest comparison was science, 5 points below the state. Elementary’s ELA was 28%, just 2 points above the state. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades percentages are not like-grade comparisons.

Recent changes were mixed: Elementary’s ELA stayed at 28%, math slipped 2 points to 47%, and science fell 17 points, from 42% to 25%. High improved in both reported subjects, with ELA rising 18 points to 62% and math rising 10 points to 14%. SchoolDigger placed Elementary at the 81st percentile in 2025–2026, down 5 points from the prior year but up 26 from 2020–2021; High rose 16 points to the 64th percentile, though that remained 3 points below its 2023–2024 position. In 2024–2025, the free/reduced lunch eligible measure was 77% at Elementary and 56% at High; student-teacher ratios were 11.5 and 11, respectively. Attendance was a brighter spot: chronic absenteeism was 10% and 8%, compared with 16% statewide, and High’s graduation rate was 87%, versus 78% statewide.