Grove Elementary, Piedmont SC - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Grove Elementary

Grove Elementary serves kindergarten through fifth grade in the Greenville 01 school district, located in the Piedmont CDP. Piedmont itself is a small residential community straddling Anderson and Greenville counties, a quiet place with a compact Main Street and a history as a textile mill town along the Saluda River. The school sits on a separated campus from other district schools in the area. The community has seen steady population growth and sits within reach of Greenville and the I-85 corridor, a context many families moving to the area find attractive.

The school enrolls a student body where the largest share identifies as Hispanic, followed by Black, then a smaller proportion of White students, with a modest number of students identifying as two or more races or American Indian or Alaska Native. Every enrolled student qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, a marker of the economic profile of the attendance zone. The school does not appear to be a magnet or charter school. The student population is spread relatively evenly across kindergarten through fifth grade.

On the state's SC Ready assessments, proficiency rates across subjects and grades show a mixed picture with some bright spots. In third grade, just under half of students met the proficiency bar in both math and English language arts. Fourth grade results were similar in English language arts, with under half proficient, while math dipped lower and science came in a touch below that. Fifth grade showed a further drop in math proficiency, while English language arts held around the same level as the earlier grades. These results indicate that the school’s strongest tested performance is in elementary English language arts, where proficiency rates stay relatively steady across grades, while math proficiency declines notably as students move through the grades. A parent may want to ask the school about its math curriculum and support structures, especially for upper elementary students.

The social studies data is from a much older testing cycle and used a different assessment and different proficiency criteria, so it does not give a current read on that subject. Because the test or its cut scores changed since then, that older number cannot be compared to today’s results. The state testing data available covers only the most recent school year, so there is no trend information to show whether these proficiency rates are improving or declining over time.

The school’s academic results place it within the Greenville County school district, but the county-level comparison data for proficiency and attendance was not available because the comparison group of schools was too small for a meaningful read. This means a reader cannot see how Grove Elementary stacks up against its nearest peers on these measures from the data at hand.

Grove Elementary is a regular public school in a district where the parent-relevant changes were not well documented in publicly reported materials. The school itself does not offer high school programs, so there is no graduation rate to consider. It operates within a community that has both a sense of its own past and the practical reality of being part of a growing metropolitan region. For a family considering this school, the key takeaway is an elementary school serving a high-poverty population where English language arts proficiency is the relative strength and math proficiency declines through the grades, all set in a small-town environment near Greenville.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 66% · ▼ 19 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 440%

School 40% · District 65% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 529%

School 29% · District 60% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 349%

School 49% · District 71% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 71% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 543%

School 43% · District 70% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Science

Grade 441%

School 41% · District 63% · ▼ 22 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 571%

School 71% · District 80% · ▼ 9 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

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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 4Lower-income48%Higher-income40%8 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 4Lower-income41%Higher-income35%6 pp gap