The top reported proficiency rate is 42% in English language arts. The lowest is 29% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Chapmanville Middle School
Chapmanville Middle School sits along Crawley Creek Road in the small Logan County town of Chapmanville, serving grades five through eight as a regular public school in the Logan County Schools district. The student body is close-knit and nearly entirely white, with only a handful of students identifying as multiracial or Black. The school is not a charter or magnet, and no Title I status was reported in the data available. Free-or-reduced-price lunch figures, English learner counts, and special education rates were all missing from the source data, so the economic profile of the student population is something a parent would want to ask the school about directly. With roughly five hundred students spread across four grade levels, the school is a moderate-sized middle school for its setting, and participation on state assessments runs near universal across every tested grade and subject.
On the West Virginia General Summative Assessment, the most recent results paint a mixed academic picture. In English language arts, roughly half of fifth graders reached proficiency, and the sixth grade was close behind. Proficiency then dips in seventh grade before partial recovery in eighth. The pattern in math is similar in shape but lower in level: fifth and sixth grades land in a moderate range, seventh grade drops sharply to a low level, and eighth grade rebounds to the strongest math result in the building. Science, tested only in grades five and eight, shows proficiency sliding from a middling fifth-grade level to a lower eighth-grade level. The seventh-grade trough in both reading and math is the most pronounced soft spot in the data. Average scale scores were not available from the state, and no multi-year trend could be computed beyond the current year, so there is no way to tell from this data whether these results are improving, holding steady, or declining over time. A parent evaluating the school would be right to ask how the seventh-grade slide is being addressed and whether the eighth-grade recovery reflects intervention or simply a stronger cohort.
Because this is a middle school serving grades five through eight, there is no graduation rate to report, and the absence of that metric reflects the grade band rather than any gap in performance. No civil-rights data, course-access information, staffing figures, discipline reports, or attendance records were included in the data provided, so the picture of daily school environment is limited to what the test results and demographics convey. Program offerings were not reported either, leaving questions about electives, advanced coursework, extracurriculars, and support services unanswered by the available data.
Chapmanville itself is a small incorporated town along the Guyandotte River in northern Logan County, where US Route and WV Route 10 intersect. Publicly reported sources describe a community that has been losing population over the past decade and a half, with the decline continuing into the present. The town covers a compact area, and its schools, municipal offices, and community facilities sit close together rather than on separated campuses. Chapmanville Regional High School, Chapmanville Intermediate, and Chapmanville Primary are all nearby, making this part of a cluster of school buildings anchored in the town core. The Tracy Vickers Community Center serves as a civic gathering venue, and the town hosts the Apple Butter Festival each September. A recently acquired connector to the Hatfield-McCoy Trails and the Guyandotte Water Trail point toward recreational tourism as a local focus. No major private employers were identified in available sources, and no public library was found within the town itself. The town employs its own police, street and sanitation, water, and recreation staff, and has a volunteer fire department.
The housing market in the school's zip code is affordable relative to both state and national benchmarks. Typical home values sit below the West Virginia state figure and well below the national figure, with a price-to-income ratio that suggests housing costs remain manageable for area households. No rental data was available. For a family already in or near Chapmanville, the school represents the community's middle-grade pathway, with test results that show real strengths in the upper elementary grades, a clear dip in the middle grades, and some recovery by eighth grade. The gaps in the data, particularly around student support services, economic demographics, and program offerings, mean a parent would need to go directly to the school for a fuller sense of what the daily experience offers.
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