The top reported proficiency rate is 46% in Math. The lowest is 23% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Point Harmony Elementary School
Point Harmony Elementary School sits on Big Tyler Road in Cross Lanes, a census-designated place that functions as a bedroom suburb of Charleston. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school within Kanawha County Schools. Cross Lanes is car-dependent by design, with residential subdivisions and strip commercial development along major corridors and no walkable downtown. Housing here consists largely of single-family homes and duplexes built mostly between the 1970s and 1990s, and home values sit below both the state and national benchmarks, which may make the area relatively accessible for families looking to buy. Rents are also modest relative to broader state patterns. The community has seen a slight population decline rather than growth, and no major new housing developments surfaced in publicly reported sources, so the setting is that of a mature, settled suburb rather than one in flux.
The school's enrollment is mid-sized for an elementary building, with a fairly even distribution across the grade levels. The student body is predominantly white, with a smaller group of students identifying as two or more races and a smaller still group of Black students. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, so we cannot characterize the economic mix of the families here from what was provided. The same gap applies to special education and English learner counts, which were missing. A parent evaluating the school's support services for those populations may want to look into this further with the school directly.
On state assessments, Point Harmony's results paint a mixed but informative picture. Because the school stops at fifth grade, there are no middle school or graduation rate figures, and that is simply the nature of the grade band, not a gap in performance. Math proficiency across the tested grades lands in a middling range, with third, fourth, and fifth grade all clustering within a fairly tight band. English language arts results show more variation: third grade proficiency is notably lower than fourth and fifth, where results improve to levels closer to the math figures. Science proficiency in fifth grade is the weakest result in the dataset, with only a small share of students reaching proficiency. Participation was full or near-full across all tested grades and subjects, which means these results reflect the student body rather than a testing gap.
No trend data across multiple years was available in a form that allows clean comparison, so we cannot say whether these proficiency levels are improving, declining, or holding steady. Average scale scores were also missing from the dataset, leaving proficiency rates as the main academic signal.
Cross Lanes has no public high school within its boundaries; students eventually move on to Nitro High School in nearby Nitro. The area's civic life centers on dispersed institutions along Big Tyler Road, including the Cross Lanes Branch Library and the cluster of public schools, rather than a central town core. We looked for recent district-level changes in Kanawha County Schools, such as referendums, curriculum shifts, or consolidation decisions, but found little meeting a lasting-impact threshold, so we left it out rather than guess. The school's Title I status was also not reported, along with staffing, attendance, and discipline data, so the portrait here is built mostly from assessment results, demographics, and the surrounding community context.
For a family considering Point Harmony, the academic signal is one of moderate math performance, stronger upper-grade ELA results, and a science outcome that stands out as the soft spot. The suburban setting is quiet and established, with housing costs that look manageable compared with state and national levels. The missing data on free lunch, special education, and English learners means a parent with questions about student support would need to ask the school directly.
See more original research from School Decision →