The top reported proficiency rate is 79% in Math. The lowest is 63% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Scott Teays Elementary
Scott Teays Elementary sits on Teays Valley Road in Scott Depot, West Virginia, and serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school in the Putnam County Schools district. The student body is modest in size for an elementary building in this area, with the largest enrollment concentrated in the pre-K and third-grade cohorts. The school's population is predominantly white, with small representation from Asian and multiracial students and a handful of Black and Hispanic students. Demographic data on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, individualized education programs, and English learner status were not reported, so a parent wanting to understand the socioeconomic mix or special-population services would need to ask the school directly.
On the West Virginia General Summative Assessment, Scott Teays posts strong results, particularly in mathematics. Across the three tested grades, math proficiency runs well above what most West Virginia elementary schools achieve, with roughly three-quarters to just over four-fifths of students scoring proficient in each grade. English language arts results are solid but more varied, with the third grade landing lower than the upper grades before climbing in fourth and fifth. Science, tested only in fifth grade, shows a respectable share of students reaching proficiency, though it trails the school's own math marks. Every tested grade reported full participation, which means no students were excluded from the assessment picture. The state did not provide multi-year trend data for this school, so there is no way to read from the available data whether these results represent stability, improvement, or a recent shift.
Scott Depot sits in Putnam County along the Teays Valley corridor, a stretch that has drawn residential growth as a commuter area between Charleston and Huntington. Housing in the school's zip code carries a typical home value that sits well above the West Virginia state benchmark but remains below the national figure. The price-to-income ratio for the area is moderate by national standards, suggesting that families with area median earnings can manage purchase costs without the steep affordability squeeze found in many coastal markets. Rent data was not available for this zip code. No locale brief was provided for Scott Depot, so details about local amenities, employer presence, or community character are not captured here.
The district brief for Putnam County Schools turned up no recent policy, curriculum, or funding changes of lasting impact in publicly available sources. This does not mean nothing is happening at the district level, only that the search did not surface parent-relevant changes worth reporting. A family interested in district-level initiatives, boundary reviews, or program rollouts would do well to check Putnam County Schools directly.
What the available picture does convey is a school delivering consistently strong academic outcomes in the core elementary subjects, especially in math, with full assessment participation and a stable, predominantly white enrollment in a growing suburban-style pocket of Putnam County. The housing market around it is more expensive than much of West Virginia but more accessible than national norms. Gaps in free-lunch, special-education, and English-learner data are the main blind spots a parent should fill by contacting the school, since those figures often shape day-to-day classroom experience as much as test scores do.
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