The top reported proficiency rate is 40% in Science. The lowest is 22% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Roan Creek Elementary
Roan Creek Elementary serves pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in a small, regular public school setting, part of Johnson County Schools in Mountain City, Tennessee. The school is set in a rural Appalachian county seat, a town that functions as the government and trade center for a sparsely populated mountain region. The civic core includes county offices, a welcome center and history museum, and an arts center; the town also hosts an annual heritage arts festival and sits near a gated resort community. The housing market in the area carries a modest value relative to state and national benchmarks.
The student body at Roan Creek Elementary is predominantly white, with a Hispanic student population that accounts for a meaningful share of enrollment. The school serves grades where state testing is administered, and the results from the most recent test administration show a picture worth examining closely. In English language arts, just over a quarter of students scored at the proficient level or above. In math, slightly more than a fifth of students reached that bar. Science results were higher, with nearly two in five students scoring proficient or above, and social studies results fell between the math and science figures, with roughly a third of tested students meeting the proficiency threshold. Participation rates on the assessments were high, indicating that the results reflect nearly the entire tested population. For a parent considering this school, the overall proficiency rates suggest that many students are working below grade-level expectations in the core subjects of reading and math, and this is an area a family would want to understand in greater depth with the school itself.
The school offers a full elementary grade span from pre-K through sixth grade, and the enrollment is distributed across those grades with no single grade overwhelmingly large. Because Roan Creek Elementary does not serve high school grades, there is no graduation rate to report. The data available for the school did not include information on programs such as gifted education, career pathways, or specialized course access. Similarly, free-or-reduced-price lunch counts and special education or English learner counts were not present in the source data, so the overall economic or support-need context of the student body is not possible to characterize from the information at hand. A parent seeking details on these dimensions would need to go directly to the school or district to fill in those gaps.
The neighbor comparison data, which looks at performance relative to other districts in Johnson County, could not yield a meaningful comparison because the county contains only a single district. That means no local peer benchmark exists to place Roan Creek Elementary’s results in a county-level context. Statewide, the school’s results sit where they are, and the lack of a close local comparison underscores the importance of looking at the school’s own trajectory over time, though multi-year trend data was not available in the provided information.
Mountain City has seen a population decline over the past decade, with some estimates suggesting a modest rebound more recently. The town is small and its economy centers on government, local businesses, and the resort. For a family evaluating Roan Creek Elementary, the setting is a rural, tight-knit community school in a county seat where the district is the sole public school system. The academic results in tested grades are an area where the school is working to build proficiency, and a prospective parent should expect to engage with teachers and administrators about how the school supports students who are not yet meeting grade-level benchmarks. The school’s grade span means children will move on to a middle or junior high school after sixth grade, so the elementary years here are the beginning of a longer K-12 pathway within the same district.
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