The top reported proficiency rate is 48% in English language arts. The lowest is 30% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Red Level School
Red Level School is the single school serving the small, rural incorporated town of Red Level in northwestern Covington County, and it houses every grade from prekindergarten through twelfth. For a family living in or considering this part of Alabama, this school is the local academic and community hub, but a careful look at its state assessment results reveals a clear pattern: elementary reading stands as a relative strength, while math proficiency declines sharply as students move into middle school, and science results are weak.
The school is a regular public school within the Covington County school system. Slightly more than seven in ten students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the economic makeup of the community. The student body is predominantly white, with a much smaller share of Black students and a very small Hispanic population. The school draws its enrollment from a town that remains a very small place: an agricultural and timber community, now with a workforce spread across retail, education and healthcare, construction, transportation, and manufacturing. The town shows no recent history of significant population growth or major development. The school sits within or close to the town center, rather than on a separate campus elsewhere.
State testing data, reported for the most recent school year, offers a granular view by grade that matters for families wondering what path their child will follow. In third grade, roughly two-thirds of students met the state’s proficiency bar in English language arts, and that share held at about three-fifths in fourth and fifth grade. For a parent weighing elementary options, that is a meaningful positive: the early literacy numbers suggest solid foundational instruction. The picture shifts in sixth grade, where proficiency drops sharply, and declines further to roughly one-quarter of eighth graders proficient. This is a pattern a parent may want to discuss with the school: what supports exist for reading comprehension through the middle grades, and what drives the drop.
In math, the story is more challenging across the board. Third and fourth grade proficiency sits at around two-fifths, falling to roughly one-quarter of sixth graders and one-fifth of seventh and eighth graders. These are soft spots that the district should be able to speak to directly. Science results, reported for fourth and eighth grade, show roughly two-fifths of fourth graders proficient, falling to under one-quarter of eighth graders.
There is no graduation rate available in the data provided for this school. That information may be reported separately by the state or district, and a parent or guardian of a high-school-age student would want to follow up directly with the school for that figure.
Because the school serves all grades in one building, the experience for a high schooler is shaped by the same peer environment as the elementary and middle grades. The high school grade levels have fewer students than the elementary, so the upper grades form a small cohort.
When Red Level School is compared to other districts in Covington County across tested subjects and grades, its overall proficiency index sits in the bottom quartile. There are only three districts in the county, so a bottom-quartile placement means it is the lowest of the three, though the difference among them is visible in the data rather than a wide gap.
We looked for information on the district’s recent strategic priorities or changes and found little of lasting impact, so that context is not available. Likewise, we found no specific program offerings, such as career academies or dual-enrollment details, in the data provided. A family looking for specialized pathways or extracurricular breadth would need to ask the school directly.
For a family that values a small, rural K-12 environment where children move through all their school years in one building and within a close-knit community, Red Level School offers that structure. The elementary reading results are a genuine strength to build on. The math and middle-grade results are real concerns that a parent should explore with the school and district to understand what interventions, curriculum supports, or staffing changes are in place or planned.
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