The top reported proficiency rate is 47% in English language arts. The lowest is 25% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Ceredo-kenova Middle School
Ceredo-Kenova Middle School sits on High Street in Ceredo, a small residential Ohio River town about fifteen miles west of Huntington. The school serves grades six through eight as a regular public school in the Wayne County Schools district. Its enrollment is modest and fairly evenly distributed across the three grades. The student body is nearly entirely white, with only a handful of students identifying with other racial or ethnic backgrounds. Data on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, special education enrollment, and English learner status were not available, so the socioeconomic and support-service picture for the school cannot be characterized from what was provided. A parent may want to ask the school directly about these figures.
State assessment results from the most recent year tell a mixed and somewhat puzzling story. In sixth grade math, proficiency is strong, with a clear majority of tested students meeting the bar. That same cohort's performance in English language arts is moderate, with roughly half of sixth graders proficient. The picture shifts in seventh and eighth grade. Math proficiency drops sharply to under a third of students in both seventh and eighth grade. Science proficiency in eighth grade is similarly low. English language arts holds more steady across the upper grades but trends downward slightly from sixth to eighth. Participation was full across every tested grade and subject, so the results reflect the whole student body rather than a skewed subset. The steep slide in math between sixth and seventh grade is a pattern a parent may want to look into further with the school, to understand whether it reflects a curricular transition, a staffing change, or something else. The data available covers only one year, so there is no trend to compare against.
Because this is a middle school, there is no graduation rate, no ACT or SAT data, and no college-readiness measure to report. Grade levels three through five show as missing in the assessment data because Ceredo-Kenova does not serve those grades, so those gaps reflect the school's grade band rather than an absence of reporting. No Advanced Placement, dual-credit, or career-pathway program information was provided, and no course-access or staffing data were available.
The community context is quiet and affordable. Ceredo is a compact town along U.S. Route 60, with tree-lined residential streets and limited commercial activity. It shares many civic resources with adjacent Kenova. The population skews older and has been in long-term decline, with no major housing developments or redevelopment initiatives surfaced in publicly reported material. Home values in the area are well below the state and national benchmarks, and the price-to-income ratio suggests homeownership is relatively attainable for local wages. A family considering the area would find low-cost housing in a stable, small-town setting, with Huntington's broader employment and service base a short drive east.
Wayne County Schools, the parent district, did not surface any recently reported changes of lasting impact in the material provided, so there is little to relay about district-level shifts that might affect this school.
What this school appears to be is a small, homogenous middle school in an affordable river town, with a solid sixth-grade math result that does not carry through to seventh and eighth grade, and moderate but declining English language arts performance. Families drawn to the quiet residential character and low housing costs of Ceredo will want to ask the school directly about the upper-grade math drop, about student support services, and about what enrichment or intervention structures exist as students move from sixth grade into the higher grades.
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