The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in English language arts. The lowest is 39% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Ona Elementary School
Ona Elementary School sits on Elementary Drive just off US Route 60 in Ona, a small unincorporated Cabell County community about ten miles east of Huntington. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and belongs to Cabell County Schools. With an enrollment in the upper two hundreds, it is a modest-sized elementary school for its grade band, and the student body is overwhelmingly white. The data shows only a handful of students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Free-or-reduced-price lunch figures were not available, and the same is true for individualized education program and English learner counts, so a parent wanting to understand the school's socioeconomic and special-population profile would need to ask the school directly.
On the state's General Summative Assessment for the 2024-25 year, Ona Elementary's results tell a mixed but broadly readable story. In English language arts, proficiency climbs steadily from third through fifth grade, with the highest grade reaching a level well above the math figures. Third graders land at just over half proficient, fourth graders rise further, and fifth graders reach the strongest mark in the school. Math tells a flatter pattern, with third, fourth, and fifth grades all hovering around the midpoint, showing a slight decline from third to fifth. Science is tested only in fifth grade at this level, and the proficiency rate there falls below the math and ELA marks, sitting below half. A parent may want to look into the science result further with the school, though single-grade science outcomes in elementary settings can swing year to year with small class sizes. Participation was full across every tested grade.
Because Ona Elementary does not serve grades six through eight, those grade-level rows appear as missing in the data. That reflects the school's grade band, not a gap in performance. There is no graduation rate to report, and no trend data spanning multiple years is available yet.
The community around the school is car-dependent and low-density. Ona has no traditional downtown or walkable commercial core; homes, the post office, and local businesses string along the Route 60 corridor. The civic and recreational life of the area centers on a few distinct anchors: the Ona Little League Athletic Complex draws families from across the tri-state region for baseball and softball, the Ona Airpark operates a grass strip with hangars and a flight school, and the Ona Speedway hosts local stock-car racing. The Mud River runs through the area. No public library branch or fixed-route transit serves Ona directly, so residents rely on Huntington and the broader Cabell County system for those services.
Housing in the Ona zip code sits above the West Virginia state benchmark but well below the national figure, and the price-to-income ratio is low by national standards, making ownership relatively attainable for the area's above-state-average household incomes. Rent data was not available for the zip code. The community has seen steady income growth and modest population gains over recent years, with proximity to Interstate 64 and Marshall University supporting its appeal. Publicly reported sources describe Ona as largely built-out rather than rapidly expanding, a rural-suburban enclave with high homeownership rather than a place experiencing heavy new development.
We looked for recent parent-relevant changes in Cabell County Schools and found little in the way of referendums, curriculum shifts, or property-tax adjustments, so there is nothing to report on that front. The school's Title I status was not provided, nor were staffing ratios, discipline data, or program offerings, so a family evaluating support services or specialized programs would need to seek that information from the school or district directly.
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