The top reported proficiency rate is 23% in English language arts. The lowest is 13% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Beverly Elementary School
Beverly Elementary School sits on Main Street in the heart of Beverly, a tiny historic town in the Tygarts Valley of Randolph County, West Virginia. The town was once the county seat and is listed in its entirety on the National Register of Historic Places, with a heritage economy built around Civil War history and restored late-18th- and 19th-century structures. Publicly reported sources describe a community in slow population decline, with no major new housing or commercial development on the horizon. The school serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade and is part of Randolph County Schools. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet.
The enrollment is small, in the mid-two-hundreds, spread across seven grade levels. The student body is almost entirely white, with only a handful of students identifying as Asian, Black, Hispanic, or two or more races. Several data points that parents often look for were not available. Free-or-reduced-price lunch counts were not reported, so the economic profile of the student body cannot be characterized from the data provided. Special-education and English-learner counts were also missing. Title I status was not reported. These gaps leave a thinner picture of student support than many families would want; a parent may want to ask the school directly about services and eligibility.
On state testing, Beverly Elementary's results were low across the board. In math, proficiency declined as students moved up through the tested grades, with third grade posting the strongest result and fifth grade the weakest. English language arts followed a similar pattern in the lower grades but improved in fifth grade, where roughly a quarter of tested students reached proficiency. Science was tested only in fifth grade, and the proficiency rate there matched the lowest math rate. Every tested grade recorded full participation, which means the results reflect the whole cohort rather than a skewed subset. Average scale scores were not available, and only a single year of data was reported, so there is no trend to describe. A parent trying to understand whether these numbers reflect a long-standing pattern or a recent dip will not find that answer in the available data. This is an area where a conversation with school leadership would help.
The town itself is extremely compact, with a historic grid downtown and rural surroundings beyond. No walkability scores, public library, parks, or transit were identified in publicly reported sources. Civic life centers on the Beverly Heritage Center, Rich Mountain Battlefield, and Town Hall. No major private employers surface in the available research, and the nearby city of Elkins, which supplanted Beverly as county seat, likely holds many of the region's larger workplaces. Housing in the Beverly zip code is inexpensive by national standards and sits just above the West Virginia statewide benchmark, with a price-to-income ratio well below the national figure. Rent data was not available. For a family considering buying, the area offers affordability that few places can match, though the tradeoff is a thin local economy.
Nothing in the available data speaks to course offerings, extracurriculars, discipline patterns, staffing ratios, or attendance at Beverly Elementary. These fields were absent. The district-level search turned up no recent referendums, curriculum changes, or other parent-relevant developments, so there is little to report on the policy direction of Randolph County Schools from the provided material.
What the data does show is a small, rural elementary school in a quiet, historically rich town where housing is affordable and the community is tight-knit but economically limited. Academic proficiency is low relative to what most families would hope to see, and the missing data on student support services, economic disadvantage, and special populations makes it hard to say much about the full experience inside the building. Families considering Beverly Elementary would benefit from visiting and asking directly about intervention programs, support staff, and what the school is doing to move proficiency upward.
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