Summary:
Dahlgren has one school, Dahlgren Elementary School, serving kindergarten through sixth grade, with 139 students. In 2025–2026, its all-grades English language arts (ELA) result was close to the state’s, while mathematics remained lower: ELA was 55.8%, compared with 56.3% statewide, and math was 33%, compared with 40% statewide and 36% in Hamilton County CUSD 10. The most important takeaway is that math is the larger academic concern: Dahlgren was 7 percentage points below the state.
Within the school’s published grade-level ELA results, third grade stands out positively and sixth grade is the weakest relative to the state: third grade scored 60%, 12 points above the state, while sixth grade scored 44%, 15 points below it; fourth grade scored 52%, 3 points below the state. Fifth-grade ELA is suppressed, so there is no school score to report for that grade. Attendance is another bright spot: reported chronic absenteeism was 2% at Dahlgren, versus 20% in the district and 24% statewide. Fifth-grade science was a modest strength in 2024–2025, at 42%, compared with 40% in the district and 41% statewide, but the 2025–2026 school score is suppressed. There are no other local schools to rank against one another.
Both all-grades tested subjects improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA rose about 4 points, from 52% to 56%, and math rose about 3 points, from 30% to 33%; the state’s increases were about 3 points in ELA and 1 point in math. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking moved in the opposite direction, falling from the 63rd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 53rd in 2024–2025 and the 44th in 2025–2026. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 17.2 in 2024–2025 and 56% free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Since this area has only one school, these figures cannot provide local school-to-school comparisons.
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