The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in English language arts. The lowest is 38% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Northside Elementary
Northside Elementary is a regular public school in Savannah, Tennessee, serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It sits within the Hardin County school district, and Savannah is both the district’s seat and the only incorporated city of any size in the county. The school’s address on East Main Street places it along the US Route 64 corridor that runs through the center of town.
Savannah itself is a small city situated on the east bank of the Tennessee River. Its built fabric is a classic small-town grid: a traditional courthouse square anchors downtown, with City Hall and local retail clustered nearby. The population has seen modest, steady growth in recent years, but no large-scale new development was readily apparent in publicly available information. Housing values in the broader area fall well below national benchmarks, making the community more affordable than many parts of the country. The local economy includes a retail sector of some scale, though named major employers were not identified in available sources.
Northside serves a student body that is predominantly white, with small shares of Black, Hispanic, Asian, and multiracial students. The school does not report free-or-reduced-price lunch data in the available records, nor does it provide counts of students with disabilities or English learners. A parent who wants to understand the school’s support for those populations would need to ask the school or district directly. The enrollment is spread fairly evenly across the elementary grades, with a slightly larger kindergarten cohort.
On state assessments, Northside’s results give a mixed picture. In English language arts, just under half of tested students scored at the proficient level or above. In math, the share was lower, with roughly two in five students meeting the bar. Science results were similar to math. Social studies data is available only from several years ago and should be treated with caution, as the state changed both the assessment and the cut scores since then. None of these proficiency rates are notably high, and a parent may want to explore how the school supports students who are not yet meeting grade-level expectations. Participation rates on the tests were very high, which gives confidence that the results reflect nearly all students.
Because Northside is an elementary school, there is no graduation rate to consider. The comparison data that would normally place the school relative to other districts in Hardin County was not usable, because there is only one school district in the county. That limits the context a parent can get from county-level peer comparisons.
No information was available about program offerings, such as gifted services, art, music, or after-school activities. Likewise, discipline data, chronic absenteeism, and staffing ratios were not provided in the records reviewed.
In summary, Northside Elementary offers a standard elementary program in a small-town Tennessee setting. Its academic performance on state tests is below the state average in most subjects, which is a soft spot a prospective family would want to investigate by visiting the school and asking about instructional supports and interventions. The lack of data on free lunch eligibility and special populations means those dimensions of the school’s context remain unclear from the available sources. For a family looking at Savannah, the school reflects the broader community: modest, affordable, and without the scale or resources of a larger suburban or urban district.
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