The top reported proficiency rate is 20% in English language arts. The lowest is 12% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Hannan Junior/senior High School
Hannan Junior/Senior High School sits in Ashton, a small unincorporated community along the Ohio River in Mason County, West Virginia. The school serves grades seven through twelve and is part of Mason County Schools. Ashton is a dispersed rural settlement strung along West Virginia Route 2, roughly fifteen miles south of Point Pleasant. There is no downtown, no walkable center, no distinct commercial district. Civic life centers on a post office and the community's two public schools, with Ashton Elementary serving pre-kindergarten through sixth grade and Hannan handling the upper grades. Publicly reported sources identify no parks, libraries, or transit serving the area, and no major employers turned up in available searches. The Ohio River forms the western edge of the community.
The enrollment is small, with each grade level holding roughly three to four dozen students. The student body is almost entirely white, with only a handful of students from other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Free and reduced-price lunch data was not available, so the economic profile of the student body cannot be characterized from what was provided. The community itself sits in a housing market well below both the state and national benchmarks, with homes remaining relatively affordable by a wide margin. Rental data was not available.
State testing results are limited to the grades this school serves that the state actually tests. West Virginia's general summative assessment covers grades three through eight, so only seventh and eighth grade results appear for Hannan. The high school grades, nine through twelve, do not have proficiency data in this dataset because those grades are not part of the state's grade-level summative assessment.
The available results are low across all three subjects. In math, fewer than one in six seventh graders reached proficiency, and the eighth grade result was lower still. English language arts showed somewhat higher rates, with roughly a quarter of seventh graders and a smaller share of eighth graders proficient. Science, tested only in eighth grade, landed in a similar low range. Participation was generally strong, with most tested groups at or near full participation. These are the only year's results available, so no trend can be drawn. A parent may want to look into what supports the school has in place for math and reading and how the district is responding to these numbers.
No graduation rate was provided in the data. Given that the school includes twelfth grade, the absence is a gap rather than something explained by the grade band. No program offerings, course access details, Advanced Placement or career pathway information, staffing data, discipline data, or attendance figures were available. The civil rights section was empty. A family looking at Hannan would need to contact the school directly for information about what classes and extracurriculars are offered, how the high school years are structured, and what supports exist for college and career preparation.
At the district level, Mason County Schools saw voters overwhelmingly approve the renewal of an excess levy in November 2024. Publicly reported information indicates this levy generates substantial annual funding for teacher salaries, technology, extracurricular activities and their transportation, extra duty pay, and operational and maintenance expenses. The renewal continues an existing tax rate rather than adding a new one, and its passage secures that funding stream for the foreseeable future. For a school of Hannan's size and setting, that kind of sustained local support matters for what the building can offer its students.
What the data shows is a small rural secondary school in a quiet riverside community with an affordable housing market and limited local amenities. Academic results on the state tests that are available run low, and much of what a parent would want to know about the high school experience, from graduation outcomes to course offerings, is not captured in the available data. Those are the conversations to have directly with the school.
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