The top reported proficiency rate is 53% in English language arts. The lowest is 47% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Trousdale Co Elementary
Trousdale County Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade in Hartsville, the county seat of Trousdale County. The school is part of the same district that includes Jim B. Satterfield Middle School and Trousdale County High School, and its building sits within the town fabric rather than on a remote campus. Hartsville itself is a small consolidated city-county seat with a business district along the West Fork of Goose Creek, located at the junction of two state routes roughly northeast of Nashville. The town has seen strong population and home value growth in recent years. The most prominent local employer is the CoreCivic-run Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, a medium-security prison that opened a number of years ago and has shifted the town’s economic character.
Enrollment at the elementary school, which is a regular public school and not a charter, exceeds six hundred students. The student body is predominantly white, black and Hispanic students together make up a substantial but not dominant share, and there are small numbers of students identified as American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian, and two or more races. Data on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, receive special education services, or are classified as English learners were not available in the profile examined.
Academic performance is measured through Tennessee’s TNReady assessments. In both math and English language arts, roughly half of students scored at the proficient level or above, which is defined as reaching Levels 3 or 4 on the state’s four-level scale. Science results were a few points lower, with less than half of students reaching that threshold. Participation in testing was complete, with all enrolled students sitting for the exams. Performance data for social studies were suppressed for the available year, meaning no public result was reported. A parent trying to gauge the school’s academic trajectory should note that only a single year of testing data was available in this profile, so there was no multi-year trend to examine for improvement or decline.
Other typical indicators of school quality, such as chronic absenteeism rates and graduation rates, do not apply to this elementary school. The school’s grade band, ending at fifth grade, means no graduation rate data are produced. Civil rights data on discipline were not present in the profile, and no information about staffing ratios or teacher qualifications was provided. The school’s Title I status was also not reported in the available records.
The school does not have any special designations like magnet status. No program offerings, such as specialized academic tracks or extracurricular activities, were listed in the data available for this profile. A parent would need to consult the school directly or visit its website to learn about after-school programs, art and music instruction, or any targeted academic supports for students who need extra help.
Because Trousdale County is the only school district within Trousdale County, the comparison set that would normally place this school relative to neighboring districts is a universe of one, and thus no meaningful comparative position is available. The school stands alone within the county.
What this adds up to is a mid-sized rural elementary school in a growing town where housing values have risen markedly. Academically, the school is producing proficiency at roughly the halfway mark in math and English language arts, with science slightly trailing. The absence of multi-year data makes it impossible to say whether performance is stable, improving, or declining, and the missing information on student poverty and special populations leaves a gap in understanding the full context. A family considering this school would likely want to speak with the principal or a current parent to fill in those blanks, particularly around student support resources and the school’s academic trajectory.
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