The top reported proficiency rate is 38% in English language arts. The lowest is 28% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Verdunville Elementary School
Verdunville Elementary School sits on Mustang Hill Road in a small, rural unincorporated community tucked into the Mud Fork valley of Logan County, West Virginia. It is a regular public school serving pre-kindergarten through fourth grade, part of the Logan County school district. The setting is distinctly Appalachian: homes clustered along a narrow valley road, no commercial corridor, no traditional downtown, and civic life anchored by little more than a post office and a volunteer fire department. The county seat of Logan lies a few miles east, and most civic institutions, shopping, and services concentrate there rather than in Verdunville itself. The community has been experiencing steady population decline, consistent with broader contraction across southern West Virginia coal communities, and no new housing developments or commercial projects were identified in publicly reported sources.
The school is small, with an enrollment that fills roughly two classrooms per grade. Its student body is nearly entirely white, reflecting the demographics of the surrounding community. A very small number of students are identified as Black or as two or more races. Data on free or reduced-price lunch, special education, and English learner populations was not reported, so those dimensions of the school's student profile are not available here. A parent wanting to understand the economic needs of the student body would need to ask the school directly.
Academically, the picture is mixed and drawn from a thin set of results. The school serves only through fourth grade, so the only state assessment data available is for grades three and four, the grades tested at this level. Fifth grade and beyond show no results because the school does not serve those grades. Science proficiency is not reported for the same reason: science is assessed at grades five and eight in West Virginia, and Verdunville Elementary does not teach those grades. Participation among tested students was full.
In math, proficiency is low. Roughly a quarter of third graders and about a third of fourth graders demonstrated proficiency on the West Virginia General Summative Assessment. These are below what most families would hope to see, and a parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking what interventions and instructional supports are in place and how growth is being tracked for children who are not yet proficient.
English language arts tells a somewhat stronger story. Third grade proficiency was modest, but fourth grade proficiency was notably higher, approaching nearly half of tested students meeting the proficient threshold. This suggests some positive movement in literacy as students progress through the upper elementary grades at this school, though the numbers remain modest overall. No trend data across multiple years was available, so it is hard to say whether these results represent a pattern or a single-year snapshot.
The school does not have a graduation rate, because it does not serve high school grades. No data on AP courses, career pathways, dual credit, or specialized programs was provided, which is expected for an elementary school of this size and grade range. Information on staffing ratios, attendance, discipline, and course access was also not available. No neighbor comparison or county-level positioning data was provided for this school, so it cannot be placed against nearby schools using the data here. Housing values and rental data for the immediate area were not included in the available material.
The Logan County school district brief returned no recent parent-relevant changes such as bond issues, curriculum reforms, school closures, or property tax shifts. That does not mean nothing is happening; it means the search did not surface it.
What a family is looking at with Verdunville Elementary is a very small, community-rooted elementary school in a rural valley experiencing economic and population decline. It serves young children in a close-knit setting, with class sizes that likely mean students are well known to their teachers. The academic results are uneven, with literacy looking more promising than math at the upper tested grades. Families considering this school would benefit from a direct conversation with the administration about how the school supports students who are below proficiency, what reading and math instruction looks like day to day, and how children transition from fourth grade into the next school in the Logan County system.
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