Summary:
The city of Newport Center, Vermont has only one school, the Newport Town School, which serves grades PK-6 and has an enrollment of 120 students. The school is part of the Newport Town School District, which is ranked 68 out of 75 districts in Vermont and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
The Newport Town School faces significant challenges, with a chronic absenteeism rate of 22.1% and consistently low academic performance on state assessments. The school's test scores are significantly below the state averages, with only 31.58% of 3rd graders and 33.33% of 4th graders proficient in English Language Arts, and just 21.05% of 3rd graders and 26.67% of 4th graders proficient in Mathematics. Additionally, the school has a very high percentage of students (74.17%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating high levels of poverty among the student population.
Despite the school's relatively low student-teacher ratio of 9.8 to 1 and high spending per student of $16,799, the Newport Town School has consistently ranked among the lowest-performing elementary schools in Vermont over the past three school years. This suggests that the school may need to re-evaluate its strategies and resource allocation to better address the unique needs of its student population and drive meaningful improvements in academic outcomes.
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