The top reported proficiency rate is 51% in Math. The lowest is 34% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Frankfort Intermediate School
Frankfort Intermediate School sits on Intermediate Drive in Fort Ashby, a small rural community in Mineral County along Patterson Creek. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fourth grade as a regular public school in Mineral County Schools. Fort Ashby is a quiet, car-dependent place with no traditional walkable downtown, rooted in its frontier history. Ashby's Fort Museum and the annual Mineral County Fair serve as civic gathering points, while U.S. Route 28 threads through as the main corridor. Publicly reported sources describe the community as primarily residential with limited commercial activity, and the population has been slowly declining, consistent with broader patterns in rural West Virginia. Fort Ashby is part of the Cumberland, Maryland metropolitan area and sits a short drive south of that city, which likely shapes some commuting patterns for families living here.
The school's enrollment is modest for its grade band, with the largest concentration of students in grades three and four. The pre-kindergarten program also accounts for a sizable portion of the school. Kindergarten and first grade show no enrollment, and second grade has only a handful of students, which suggests the building functions primarily as an upper-elementary and pre-k site rather than a full continuum of early grades. The student body is almost entirely white, with a very small number of Hispanic students and students of two or more races. No free-or-reduced-price lunch data was available, and information on special education enrollment and English learner populations was not reported, so those dimensions of student need are not visible in the data we received.
On state assessments, Frankfort Intermediate's results are limited to the two grades it serves that are tested under West Virginia's system. Third and fourth graders take the West Virginia General Summative Assessment in math and English language arts. The school does not produce grade five through eight results because it simply does not serve those grades, and science results are absent for the same reason, since science is assessed only in grades five and eight in West Virginia. There is no graduation rate to report, as the school does not include any high school grades.
In the data that does exist, math is the stronger subject. Fourth-grade math proficiency lands well above third-grade levels, suggesting students make solid academic growth between those two tested grades. English language arts is softer. Third-grade ELA proficiency is notably low, and while fourth-grade ELA shows a marked improvement, it still sits in a moderate range. The third-grade ELA result is the clearest soft spot in the academic picture. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly how early literacy instruction and intervention are structured across the primary and intermediate grades. Full participation was reported for both tested grades, which means the results reflect nearly the entire eligible student body rather than a subset.
The housing market in the Fort Ashby area offers a different context from much of West Virginia. Typical home values here run above the state benchmark but remain well below national levels, and the price-to-income ratio sits in a range that suggests the area remains relatively affordable for working households compared to many parts of the country. Rental data was not available. The community's slow population decline and lack of identified major employers point to a stable but economically quiet setting, where the school likely functions as one of the central institutions in daily life.
We looked for information on district-level changes that might affect families, such as program shifts, facility updates, or policy moves, but the search did not surface any parent-relevant developments from Mineral County Schools. We also did not receive data on discipline, course access, staffing ratios, attendance, or any specialized program offerings, so those pieces of the school's environment are not represented here. What the data does show is a small, homogeneous rural intermediate school where math instruction appears to be building momentum across the tested grades, and where early literacy is the area most worth a parent's attention.
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