Vermont: 2025 Assessment Results
The final state to publish full results from the 2025 spring assessment cycle
2025 State Test Score Results Data Series
This newsletter is published by the Education Data Center and is designed to provide updates on 2025 state assessment data. As our readers know, we shared high-level insights on ELA and math state summative assessment outcomes for students in grades 3-8 throughout this past fall.
Today’s update is about Vermont - the final state to publish full 2025 assessment results. Vermont released a PDF overview of preliminary state-level results in October, and updated the assessment dashboard with final state, district, and school-level this week.
Trends Over Time
On Wednesday (February 18), the Vermont Agency of Education (AOE) released the full 2025 state summative test results from the Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program (VTCAP). This is the final state to publish full results from the 2025 spring assessment cycle, and the third year that the state has published full results in February.
Vermont administered the VTCAP for the first time in 2023, after transitioning away from the Smarter Balanced assessment; as such, we cannot compare to pre-pandemic results. In 2024, the state’s second year of this assessment, scores for students in grades 3-8 dropped in both ELA and math. This year, however, students made gains in ELA above both 2023 and 2024, largely driven by gains in Grades 4 and 5. Math demonstrated some gains this year relative to 2024, but did not reach 2023 levels.
ELA: Approximately 56.1% of students in grades 3-8 reached proficiency in 2025, rising above 52.9% in 2024.
Math: Approximately 38.6% of students reached proficiency in 2025, above 37% in 2024.
We found that Vermont’s state-level results included more suppression than we typically see for state assessment results. As a result, our figures below are more limited than we generally are able to present, especially for results disaggregated by race/ethnicity.
Figure 1. ELA and Math Achievement Trends
Figure 2. Vermont Results by Achievement Level
A Closer Look at 2025
Figure 3. 2025 ELA Proficiency by School District
Figure 4. 2025 Math Proficiency by School District
Vermont School District / Supervisory Union Spotlight
Figure 5. Top-Performing School Districts / Supervisory Unions in 2025 in ELA and Math
Results by Race/Ethnicity in 2025
Figure 6. Proficiency by Race/Ethnicity in 2025 in ELA and Math
Vermont State Assessment Background
Please see below for additional information on the state assessment data used for this summary. The data represent ELA and math outcomes for students in Grades 3-8 only.
Assessment Name: Vermont Comprehensive Assessment Program (VTCAP) (2023 to 2025); Smarter Balanced Assessment (2016 - 2022)
Years Included in Analysis: 2016 - 2025
Additional Information: More information on the VTCAP can be found here: https://education.vermont.gov/student-learning/assessments/statewide-assessments. School and district level assessment results are publicly available on the Vermont Education Dashboard. State assessment results are used in Vermont’s school accountability system and related results can be found on the Vermont Annual Snapshot.
Data presented here are specific to this state’s assessment and are not comparable to assessments administered by other states. For questions, please reach out to info@eddatacenter.org.