Summary:
ZIP code 57033 has six schools serving elementary, middle and high school grades, with 1,418 students enrolled across the area. Test results are available for four schools; the two alternative schools have no test scores in the supplied data. In 2025–26, the elementary schools both exceeded the state in third-grade ELA, but their math results diverged: West Central Hartford Elementary scored 62% and West Central Humboldt Elementary scored 38%, a 24-point gap. The clearest takeaway is that results vary substantially by grade and subject, so no single school leads across the board.
Hartford Elementary stands out in the matched third-grade comparison: it scored 59% in ELA and 62% in math, versus Humboldt’s 52% and 38%. Both were above the state in ELA, while only Hartford was above it in math. Humboldt also had a strong fifth-grade math result—70%, 27 points above the state—but its fifth-grade science result was 33%, 9 points below. At West Central Middle, the all-grades ELA result was slightly above the state, but eighth-grade ELA was 8 points below. West Central High reported a 96% graduation rate and 1% dropout rate in 2025–26, compared with 88% and 2% statewide. The alternative schools have no supplied test results; their 2023–24 dropout rates were 36% at Falls Academy and 69% at Brighten Transition Youth Treatment Center.
Across three comparable school-level summaries, ELA results moved closer to or further above the state from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with an average improvement of 4 points in the school-versus-state gap; math moved the other way, declining by an average of 4 points. Humboldt’s fifth-grade science result also fell 14 points year over year. SchoolDigger percentile rankings fell from 79th to 61st for Humboldt, 56th to 44th for West Central Middle and 81st to 58th for West Central High. As context, free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–25 ranged from 10% to 14% among five schools with that measure; this does not explain differences in results. Hartford, Humboldt and West Central Middle also each had chronic absenteeism below 5%, compared with 20% statewide.
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