The top reported proficiency rate is 30% in English language arts. The lowest is 14% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Sebree Elementary School
Sebree Elementary School serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in the small, rural Webster County community of Sebree, Kentucky. The student body is diverse for this part of the state, with a composition that includes more students who are Hispanic or Latino than students who are white, and a much smaller number of students who identify as two or more races or as Black. The school is part of the Webster County district, and as a regular public elementary school, it feeds into Webster County Middle School and Webster County High School, which are located elsewhere in the county rather than in Sebree's downtown core.
A very significant share of the school's families qualify for free or reduced-price meals, pointing to a student population with considerable economic need. The school itself is situated in a town with a notable historic business district, but Sebree has experienced a slight population decline in recent years, and no major new residential or commercial development was identified in publicly available information. The local housing market shows that homes in the area are priced well below both the state and national benchmarks, and the median household income in the broader national context is around the middle range, but given the high rate of economic disadvantage among the school's families, many households likely earn less than that national figure.
On state assessments, the picture is one where a parent will want to look closely at the numbers available. For reading, the school's proficiency rates for the tested grades show that a modest portion of students met the state's bar, with around one-quarter to just over one-third of students scoring proficient across the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades. The sixth-grade reading result was the highest of the group, though still below the majority level. Math results were even more sobering: the only grade for which a result was reported rather than suppressed due to small group sizes was fifth grade, where the share of students scoring proficient was in the low teens. Results for third, fourth, and sixth grades in math were suppressed, meaning the group was too small for the state to publicly report, which may point to very small class sizes or data concerns. Science and social studies results for the single testable grades were also suppressed for the same reason.
No chronic absenteeism data, staffing ratios, or discipline information were available in the provided data, so a parent interested in these areas of school environment and support would need to ask the school or district directly. Similarly, there was no information about course access, special education identification rates, or English learner services in the data.
Because this is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to consider, and no advanced placement or dual-credit pathways that would apply at this grade band. The school is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and federal Title I status was not reported. The comparison set for academic performance relative to other districts within Webster County was not useful because there is only one district in the county, so no meaningful comparison can be drawn.
Sebree Elementary offers a small, rural educational setting in a community that has held steady in its historical role while seeing some demographic change. The state assessment results suggest that many students are not yet reaching grade-level proficiency, which could be a significant factor for a family considering this school, particularly given the high level of economic need. A parent may want to ask the school about academic interventions, support for students who are behind, and what programs are in place for the large Hispanic student population, such as English language development services, even though formal data on that was not supplied.
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