Lenoir City Elementary, Lenoir City TN

Original Research by School Decision on Lenoir City Elementary

Lenoir City Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through third grade, making it an entry point into the Lenoir City school system. The school draws roughly 600 students, and the student body is nearly evenly split between Hispanic and White children, with small shares of Black, Asian, multiracial, and Native American students. It operates as a regular public school within the Lenoir City district.

Because the school ends at third grade, the state testing results come from a single grade level. On the 2024–25 TNReady assessments, about two out of five third graders scored proficient or above in math, roughly three in ten did so in English language arts, and about one in four reached that bar in science. All three figures are below what one typically sees in a public school serving a broader grade span, though the comparison set is small. The school’s overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to the only two school districts in Loudon County. A parent may want to ask the school directly what the trajectory looks like from those early results as students move to higher grades in the district, since the elementary school itself cannot show longitudinal growth.

Lenoir City Elementary sits in a city that is growing. The Chamber of Commerce points to new subdivisions, and the population has increased in recent years, with a noticeable share of residents under eighteen. The older part of town follows a 1890s grid near US-11, while newer commercial development stretches along a five‑mile highway corridor that serves traffic from I-75 and I-40. Home values and rents in the area are in line with national medians. The city provides electric, gas, sewer, and water utilities, and the Tennessee River with TVA reservations forms the southern boundary, giving the area access to lakes.

The district itself reported no recent changes of lasting impact that a parent could point to. No information was available on free or reduced‑price meal eligibility, special education enrollment, or English learner numbers, nor on discipline or chronic absenteeism. Those gaps mean a family considering this school would want to speak with the district about the support systems in place for students who need extra help.

For a family looking for a neighborhood elementary school in a growing suburban city east of Knoxville, Lenoir City Elementary offers an early‑grades environment where the testing data is available but modest, and the surrounding community is both expanding and highway‑linked. The school’s short grade span means students will move on to the district’s intermediate and middle school after third grade, so the full academic picture only emerges over time.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grades 3-838%

School 38% · District 39% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grades 3-829%

School 29% · District 29% · ▲ 1 pts above district

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

Science

Grades 3-824%

School 24% · District 38% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Social studies

Grades 3-815%

School 15% · District 46% · ▼ 31 pts below district

▼ 25 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

This schoolLenoir City, same grade

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 3Lower-income24%Higher-income31%7 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income24%Higher-income31%7 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income44%Higher-income36%8 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income44%Higher-income36%8 pp gap