Smyrna Elementary, Smyrna TN - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Smyrna Elementary

Smyrna Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in the town of Smyrna, a rapidly growing suburban community in Rutherford County. The school is part of Rutherford County Schools, one of the state's largest and fastest-growing districts.

The student body is notably diverse. A majority identify as Hispanic, with white students making up the next largest group, followed by Black and Asian students. This composition gives the school a broadly multicultural peer environment uncommon in many elementary schools in the region.

State testing results from the most recent school year show mixed academic performance. In math, just over two out of five students scored at the proficient or advanced level. In English language arts and in science, the proficiency rate was slightly lower, sitting above a third of students. These results place the school's overall academic performance in the bottom quarter when compared with the other two school districts in Rutherford County. A parent may want to discuss with the school how it supports students who are not yet meeting benchmarks and how it challenges those who are.

The school has a high participation rate on state assessments, indicating that nearly all enrolled students took the tests. There is no recent data available on social studies performance under the current assessment, as the last reported social studies results are from several years ago and the state changed both the test and its scoring standards since then.

Smyrna itself is a town defined by rapid growth. Driven by the massive Nissan assembly plant and other industrial employers, as well as suburban expansion from the Nashville metro area, the population has risen steeply over recent decades. The housing market reflects this demand; home values and rents are above the state average. The community is car-dependent, with suburban subdivisions and commercial strips spread across a wide area, although there is a network of parks and greenway trails.

Rutherford County Schools, which runs Smyrna Elementary, has made several district-wide changes that affect the school. Voters approved a bond referendum to fund new construction and renovations, addressing enrollment growth across the county. The district has also shifted all elementary schools to a phonics-based literacy curriculum and completed a 1:1 technology initiative, providing a computing device to every student.

As a regular public elementary school, Smyrna Elementary does not serve high school grades, so there is no graduation rate to report. Details on the share of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, the number of students with disabilities, and the number of English learners were not available in the data. A parent may wish to ask the school directly about the supports it offers for students learning English and for those with special education needs.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grades 3-843%

School 43% · District 52% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 2 pts below county median

English language arts

Grades 3-838%

School 38% · District 46% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 5 pts below county median

Science

Grades 3-838%

School 38% · District 54% · ▼ 16 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Social studies

Grades 3-825%

School 25% · District 60% · ▼ 35 pts below district

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

This schoolRutherford County, 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-income10%Higher-income25%15 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income44%Higher-income53%9 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income24%Higher-income43%20 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income27%Higher-income41%13 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income16%Higher-income34%18 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income36%Higher-income60%24 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income53%Higher-income43%10 pp gap

Grades 3-8Lower-income34%Higher-income46%11 pp gap