Summary:
The Valle Lindo Elementary area has two schools: K–5 New Temple, with 606 students, and grades 6–8 Dean L. Shively, with 289. Their current results point to different strengths, but the clearest concern is Shively’s mathematics: 34% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, 4 percentage points below the state, with results 5 points below in grade 7 and 10 points below in grade 8.
New Temple stands out for stronger all-grades results against the state, especially in science and mathematics. Its proficiency was 56% in science and 52% in mathematics, respectively 20 and 14 points above state levels; it was also 9 points above the state in ELA. Shively’s profile is more mixed: ELA was 9 points above the state and science 4 points above, but mathematics was below. The schools had nearly identical all-grades ELA results—58.2% at New Temple and 57.9% at Shively—while their mathematics and science results differed by 18 and 16 points. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not direct same-grade comparisons.
Recent changes reinforce those contrasts. Shively’s ELA proficiency rose 6 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while New Temple’s fell 1 point; New Temple’s science rose 17 points, compared with a 3-point state increase. Shively’s mathematics fell 4 points as the state rose 1 point. SchoolDigger gives New Temple 4 stars and a 76th-percentile statewide ranking, compared with Shively’s 3 stars and 66th percentile; the schools are ranked among different school groups. In 2024–2025, New Temple’s student-teacher ratio was 20.8, versus 24.2 at Shively. Both reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures that year: 69% at New Temple and 76% at Shively. These figures offer context, not an explanation for student results.
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