The top reported proficiency rate is 52% in Science. The lowest is 48% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Greene Cty Tech Elementary School
Greene County Tech Elementary School serves only second and third graders in Paragould, Arkansas, making it a narrow-grade-band school within the Greene County Tech School District. The school sits on the eastern edge of Crowley’s Ridge in the Arkansas Delta, in a working-class county seat that blends manufacturing, healthcare, and retail employment. Because the school covers only two early-elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report and no high-school-level program offerings.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with a substantial share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Enrollment is split nearly evenly between the two grade levels. The school’s peer environment is shaped by its location within a district that serves the eastern portion of Paragould and surrounding rural areas; families in the western part of the city attend the separate Paragould School District.
On state assessments administered to third graders under Arkansas’s ATLAS system, Greene County Tech Elementary posted proficiency rates that place it in the top tier of districts within Greene County. Across the tested subjects of math, English language arts, and science, the school’s overall proficiency index leads the county, outperforming the median district by a clear margin. For families evaluating academic foundations, that relative strength is a notable characteristic, though the results reflect only one grade level and a single year’s data. Fourth-grade results were suppressed, so no pattern across the upper elementary grade is visible yet. A parent may want to ask the school how its approach translates into later grades within the district.
The data available does not include information on special education identification, English learner status, chronic absenteeism, or discipline. Those gaps are common for early-elementary schools in some states and do not necessarily signal a problem, but they leave important dimensions of student experience unaddressed. The school’s staffing, class sizes, and support services are also not reported.
Housing in the Paragould area is moderately priced relative to national benchmarks, with home values that have seen modest recent appreciation. The local economy is anchored by a hospital, the two school districts, and manufacturing plants such as a wind turbine facility. The city has been growing steadily, with new subdivisions expanding west and south. For a family moving into the area, the Greene County Tech district offers an elementary school that, by available evidence, performs well compared with its county peers in the early grades, but the picture is necessarily incomplete because the school’s grade span is so short.
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