2026 accountability data: Raleigh County shows mixed gains; middle schools post notable growth

Miss Lowry presented the district's 2026 accountability results and walked the board through proficiency, cohort and ranking data available on the state portal. She reported county-level proficiencies: roughly 42.65% in math, 52.85% in language arts and 30.58% in science, and highlighted that several middle and elementary schools increased proficiency and rank over the last four years.

"So you can see our proficiency, how many MET standards exceeds, does not meet," Miss Lowry said while showing county-level charts. She pointed to strong multi-year growth at Traphill (from the transcript reference of a 57th to 19th place jump in one description), and singled out Beckley, Hollywood and Stratton for large rank increases. The presenter also explained why SchoolDigger’s independent rank comparisons sometimes appear inconsistent with her county calculations, noting SchoolDigger primarily uses normalized test scores and may not include attendance or graduation in the same way the district's filtered accountability measures do. Board members asked for a deeper work session on cohort and high-school math issues and requested a follow-up report on the master's-in-reading teacher initiative.