The top reported proficiency rate is 86% in Math. The lowest is 73% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Greenville Elementary School
Greenville Elementary School serves kindergarten through fourth grade in the small rural town of Greenville, Indiana, as part of the New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corporation. The school is an elementary-only regular public school, so there is no graduation rate to report and no high school outcomes to consider. Families whose children attend here will eventually move on to Highland Hills Middle School and Floyd Central High School, both located outside the town limits on separate campuses.
The school’s performance on the state’s ILEARN assessments places it in a strong position. Across the subjects tested in grades three and four, the overall proficiency index lands in the top quartile when compared with other districts in Floyd County. In math, a large majority of students scored proficient or above. In English language arts, the rate was also solid, and in science the results were similarly strong. These are the only state testing data available—other grades are not tested—and they reflect a school where the typical student is meeting or exceeding grade-level expectations at a notably high rate compared with peers across the county.
The student body is predominantly white, with very small shares of Hispanic, Black, Asian, and multiracial students. The share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch is low, suggesting that the school serves a primarily middle- to upper-middle-income population. Because the data do not include counts of students with disabilities or English learners, a parent who wants to understand the school’s special education and multilingual supports would need to follow up directly with the school.
Greenville itself is a very small residential town that was reshaped by a devastating fire many years ago, after which it shifted from a commercial center to a bedroom community. Residents largely commute to Louisville and New Albany for work. The town has a handful of historic buildings along its main street. The elementary school is located within the town limits, placing it near the small center. The housing market in this part of Floyd County shows home values above the statewide benchmark and slightly above the national median, and the area has seen moderate appreciation. For a family looking at the local real estate, the school is the main entry point into the district before students move to the larger middle and high school campuses.
No recent district-level changes, bond measures, or boundary adjustments were found in publicly available information, so there is little to report on what might be shifting in the near term at the system level. That is not unusual for a district that may not have had major news, but it means a parent considering this school should confirm the current feeder patterns and any upcoming enrollment or program changes by contacting the district directly.
The school’s academic profile is its clearest asset. Test results are consistently strong across multiple subjects and show that the school is performing well relative to other Floyd County elementary schools. For a family that values high academic performance in a small, homogeneous, rural elementary setting, this school fits that description. The peer environment is not especially diverse, and the share of students from low-income households is low, so the school may feel less representative of the broader socioeconomic mix found in other parts of the district. A parent looking for a school with a wider range of student backgrounds or more programming for English learners or students with disabilities may want to explore what specific supports are available here.
A fuller picture of the school would require information that is not present in the available data, including details on class sizes, teacher experience, discipline rates, chronic absenteeism, and after-school programming. Those are gaps a prospective parent would want to fill with a visit or a call to the school office. What can be said with confidence is that Greenville Elementary posts consistently high proficiency rates on state assessments and serves a community that is stable, mostly white, and middle-income, in a small town where the elementary school sits at the center of local life.
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