Summary:
The 05469 zip code is home to a single standout elementary school, Monkton Central School, which serves grades PK-6 and has a total enrollment of 125 students. Monkton Central School consistently ranks among the top elementary schools in Vermont, placing 17th out of 113 schools in the 2022-2023 school year and earning a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Academically, Monkton Central School outperforms the state average in English Language Arts (ELA) proficiency across all grade levels, with particularly strong performance in 4th and 6th grades. In mathematics, the school also exceeds the state average in 3rd, 4th, and 6th grades, but falls slightly below the state average in 5th grade. The school's 5th grade science proficiency rate of 42.86% is slightly below the state average of 44.45%. Demographically, the school's student population is predominantly white, with 98.4% of students identifying as such, and the school has a relatively low percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch at 20.8%.
Monkton Central School is part of the Mt. Abraham Unified School District #61, which is ranked 22 out of 51 districts in Vermont and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger. The school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $10,741, which is higher than the state average, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.8, lower than the state average. Overall, Monkton Central School appears to be a high-performing elementary school that is providing a quality education to its students, though there may be opportunities to address areas where proficiency rates are slightly below the state average.
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