The top reported proficiency rate is 54% in Science. The lowest is 44% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Lewisburg Elementary
Lewisburg Elementary sits in the heart of a small, historic Greenbrier County seat that has built an identity around arts, medicine, and education. The town is a walkable place where Carnegie Hall, the Greenbrier Valley Theatre, and the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine sit woven into the street grid rather than isolated on distant campuses. Publicly reported sources describe Lewisburg as a tourism- and arts-oriented community with a compact downtown of preserved eighteenth- and nineteenth-century structures, while newer commercial development has drifted toward the Interstate 64 corridor near the town's northern edge. Housing in the school's zip code sits well above the West Virginia state benchmark for typical home value and somewhat below the national one, with a recent year-over-year increase that suggests a market under upward pressure. For families, this means Lewisburg offers a culturally rich small-town setting with homeownership costs that run higher than much of the state.
The school itself is a regular public elementary serving pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, part of Greenbrier County Schools. Its enrollment is moderate for an elementary in this region. The student body is predominantly white, with small shares of students identifying as multiracial, Black, Hispanic, or Asian. Information on free or reduced-price lunch rates, special-education populations, and English learners was not available in the data provided, so it is difficult to characterize the socioeconomic mix or the scope of specialized services from these records alone. A parent wanting to understand those dimensions would want to ask the school directly.
Academic results come from the West Virginia General Summative Assessment for the most recent school year. In English language arts, proficiency is mixed across the tested grades. Third grade sits below the midpoint, fourth grade lands at about half of tested students reaching proficiency, and fifth grade shows a strong result with a clear majority of students meeting the bar. That upward arc across grade levels in reading and writing is a genuine bright spot. Math tells a different story. Third grade begins at about half proficient, but the share declines as students move into fourth and fifth grade, with the oldest tested grade showing the weakest result. Fifth-grade science proficiency sits at a moderate level, with just over half of students reaching the proficient mark. Participation rates are very high across every tested grade and subject.
Because Lewisburg Elementary does not serve grades six through eight, those rows appear as missing in the state data, and that absence simply reflects the school's grade band rather than a reporting gap. The same is true for graduation rates, which do not apply to an elementary school. No multi-year trend data was available beyond the current year, so it is not possible to say whether these proficiency levels represent improvement, decline, or stability. Average scale scores were also not reported. A parent tracking whether the school is moving in the right direction would want to look into prior years directly with Greenbrier County Schools.
The district brief turned up little in the way of recently reported changes such as curriculum overhauls, referendums, or property-tax shifts, so there is nothing concrete to relay on that front. No data was provided on staffing ratios, course access, discipline, attendance, Title I status, or specialized programs. These are areas where the records are silent, and rather than guess, it is worth flagging that a fuller picture would come from contacting the school.
What the evidence does show is an elementary school in a distinctive community, with real strength in upper-grade reading, solid science results, and a math pattern that softens in the later grades. For a family drawn to Lewisburg's cultural life and willing to engage with the school on the gaps the public data leaves open, this is a setting worth understanding closely. The math trajectory in particular is something a parent may want to look into further with the school.
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