Armuchee High School, Rome GA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Armuchee High School

Armuchee High School is a comprehensive public school serving grades seven through twelve in Rome, northwest Georgia. It enrolls students across a broad geographic and socioeconomic range, with a student body that is predominantly white and a substantial share qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the mixed-income composition of Floyd County.

In mathematics, the school's proficiency tracks unevenly across the tested grades. Sixth-grade math reaches near a majority, eighth-grade math climbs to a stronger level, and seventh-grade math sits between these two. Across all tested grades and subjects, Armuchee's overall proficiency index places it in the top quartile among districts in Floyd County. Reading proficiency is lower, hovering around the midpoint or below across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Science proficiency, tested only in eighth grade, is notably weak. Social studies in eighth grade is comparatively strong. The school has only one year of proficiency data on file, so year-to-year trends cannot yet be assessed.

The school sits within Floyd County Schools, a district that has undertaken a deliberate pedagogical overhaul. In 2023 the district adopted new elementary mathematics and literacy curricula aligned with state mandate, extended that literacy approach to middle school in 2024, and in 2025 rolled out the new math curriculum to the middle grades. This district-wide shift is intentional and sustained, and Armuchee is among six Floyd County schools publicly recognized as a Literacy Leader and Math Leader school for 2024-2025. The recognition suggests the school is moving in line with the district's curricular intent, even as overall proficiency numbers show work ahead, particularly in science.

The school benefits from facility improvements funded through a voter-approved education sales-tax package passed in 2022. Armuchee received a cafeteria kitchen renovation and fieldhouse renovation under that authorization, along with new lighting and HVAC upgrades shared across the district. These improvements occurred without raising local property taxes.

Rome itself is a mid-sized city anchored by a revitalized downtown along the Oostanaula River. The community has a walkable historic core, a network of parks including Ridge Ferry Park with river access, and is growing as a bedroom community for Atlanta. Housing is affordable relative to the Atlanta region, the state, and the nation. The local economy centers on healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, and retail, with major employers including healthcare systems, Berry College, and international manufacturers. This context shapes both the student population and family circumstances that affect school engagement.

Armuchee serves a community transitioning alongside broader development trends. A parent considering this school should understand that proficiency data show math and social studies as relative strengths, reading at a lower level, and science substantially below standard in the eighth-grade assessment. The district's curriculum work and school-level recognition in literacy and math suggest intentional effort to improve instruction. The mixture of tested results and curricular momentum points to a school in the midst of implementing new approaches, where results are not yet uniform across subjects but the direction appears engaged. A parent may want to look into the school's specific supports for seventh-grade reading and eighth-grade science to understand how the school is addressing those lower proficiency areas.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=95%Cohort of 124 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

467 schools plotted. 22 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 659%

School 59% · District 57% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 754%

School 54% · District 55% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 20 pts above state median

Grade 869%

School 69% · District 62% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median

English language arts

Grade 653%

School 53% · District 46% · ▲ 7 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 747%

School 47% · District 44% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median

Grade 847%

School 47% · District 41% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median

Science

Grade 829%

School 29% · District 27% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median

Social studies

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 46% · ▲ 19 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median

This schoolFloyd County, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 7Lower-income26%Higher-income55%29 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income49%Higher-income66%17 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income37%Higher-income61%24 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 7Lower-income33%Higher-income75%41 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income52%Higher-income77%25 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income43%Higher-income76%33 pp gap