Moss

The two schools in Moss serve PK–8 and grades 9–12: Moss Elementary School has 169 students, and Moss High School has 76. Their 2025–2026 results show a sharp contrast by subject: the elementary school’s science proficiency was well above the state figure, while the high school’s was well below it. The clearest finding is this science divide: elementary students were 24 percentage points above the state, while the high school was 24 points below.

Moss Elementary stands out in science, with 54% proficient compared with 30% statewide; it also slightly exceeded the state in ELA I, 30% to 26%, and mathematics, 26% to 25%. Moss High had stronger results in ELA I and U.S. History than in its other subjects: both were 33%, compared with 26% statewide in ELA I and 41% in U.S. History. Its mathematics result was 9% versus 25% statewide, and science was 6% versus 30%. In the more directly comparable 11th-grade results, the high school was below the state in all four subjects, by 3 points in ELA I, 8 in mathematics, 15 in science and 8 in U.S. History. A separate positive is graduation: 93% at the high school versus 78% statewide in 2024–2025.

Recent changes are mixed rather than consistently upward. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, elementary science rose 14 points and ELA I rose 2, while mathematics fell 5; at the high school, mathematics rose 6 points, but ELA I and U.S. History each fell 8, and science fell 3. SchoolDigger’s high-school percentile rank also declined, from 45 in 2023–2024 to 27 in 2025–2026, a different measure from its strong graduation rate. As context, the schools’ 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 72% at the elementary school and 59% at the high school; their student–teacher ratios were 12.5 and 18.2, respectively. These comparisons span different grade ranges, so the all-grades proficiency figures are not direct grade-for-grade comparisons.