Summary:
Martin, in Floyd County, has two schools serving 682 students: May Valley Elementary School serves PK–8, and Renaissance Learning Center is an alternative school serving K–12. The clearest overall finding is that May Valley is above the state proficiency rate in 19 of its 20 reported subject-and-grade results; its exception is grade 4 Mathematics, at 34% compared with 43% statewide.
May Valley stands out positively in the available results: its average across those 20 results is 51%, versus 43% for the state, and its subject averages are above the state in all six listed subjects. Its largest grade-level advantage is grade 5 Mathematics, 63% versus 43%, a 20-point lead. Renaissance stands out on the low side in its two reportable Reading results: grade 7 is 11%, compared with 61% at May Valley and 50% statewide; grade 8 is 13%, versus 52% and 40%, respectively. Renaissance’s results are suppressed for most other listed tests, so a broader direct comparison is not available.
Results at May Valley have been mixed: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, its averages rose 9 points in Science and 5 in Social Studies, while falling 12 in Writing, 4 in Mathematics, and 8 in Editing and Mechanics; Reading was nearly unchanged, up 1 point. Its overall average across the 20 results declined by 2 points, from 53% to 51%. SchoolDigger ranks May Valley 195th of 684 statewide, in the 71st percentile, with four stars. As context, in 2024–25, 72% of May Valley students and 93% of Renaissance students were free/reduced lunch eligible; their student-teacher ratios were 16.9 and 9.4, respectively. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–26 was 23% at May Valley and 43% at Renaissance, compared with 24% statewide.
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