The top reported proficiency rate is 56% in Science. The lowest is 38% in Social studies.
Original Research by School Decision on Lewis County Intermediate School
Lewis County Intermediate School serves third through fifth graders in Hohenwald, the county seat of Lewis County, Tennessee. This is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, and it sits within the Lewis County school district. The town, founded by Swiss immigrants in the 1890s, retains a distinctive heritage visible in its downtown courthouse, restored train depot welcome center, and annual Oktoberfest, but German-language cultural ties faded during World War I. Hohenwald is small and auto-dependent, with the Elephant Sanctuary and a long-term addiction care community among its notable local institutions. The school itself is at 310 Park Avenue South, and while the town has a concentrated downtown grid, school facilities in the county system tend to be set back from that commercial core rather than integrated into it.
The student body at this intermediate school is predominantly white, with small but visible shares of Hispanic students, students identifying as two or more races, and Asian students. Enrollment is modest for a grades three-through-five building, with each grade level carrying a similar-sized cohort. Data on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch was not reported, and information on students served under an individualized education program or those learning English was also absent from available records, so a family seeking to understand the school’s full support needs would want to ask the school directly about these populations.
On state testing through the TNReady assessments for the most recent year, roughly half of students met the proficiency benchmark in math, a touch over half did so in reading and language arts, and a modestly higher share cleared the bar in science. These are the core subjects tested at these grade levels. The school’s participation rate on the assessments was high, which strengthens the reliability of the results. Social studies testing data came from a much earlier year with a different assessment and altered cut scores, so that older figure is not comparable to the current picture. The school has no high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report, and chronic absenteeism data was not available in the provided records.
Because Lewis County is home to only one school district, there is no local comparison set of neighboring districts to place these academic results against. A parent evaluating this school will be looking at the raw performance levels on their own terms rather than relative to a nearby district. The district itself operates the only public school system in the county, and the district brief turned up no major recent changes, leadership transitions, or restructuring initiatives. The school’s academic context appears stable year to year.
Housing in Hohenwald is accessible relative to state and national benchmarks, with home values notably below the statewide median. The local economy is stable rather than booming; the town’s population showed a modest decline between the most recent censuses, and no large new housing subdivisions or commercial projects surfaced in available sources. For a family considering a move, this suggests a market without the pressure or volatility of a fast-growing suburb. The unemployment rate nationally sits in a typical range, and mortgage rates have been fluctuating in a mid-range territory.
This school fits a family looking for a small-town Tennessee setting with a plain, straightforward academic program in the elementary-intermediate years. The student composition is not diverse, and the building has no extended grade bands beyond the intermediate span, so students will transition to a different school for middle grades. The core academic results show a plurality of students reaching proficiency, with science slightly ahead of math and reading. A parent might want to check on the availability of enrichment offerings, gifted programming, or intervention supports, as the data provided did not include course access or staffing detail. The school is a regular public school embedded in a single-district rural county, and the evidence shows a school that is performing in a mid-range band with no extraordinary highs or lows.
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