Summary:
Symsonia, Kentucky, has one listed school, Symsonia Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 6 with 370 students in Graves County. Its strongest overall finding is that every reported 2025–2026 subject-and-grade score was above the state result, by 4 to 36 percentage points.
With no other listed school for comparison, there is no local school-to-school top or bottom; within Symsonia Elementary School, the largest leads were in fourth-grade math (79% versus 43% statewide, 36 points higher), fourth-grade reading (83% versus 50%, 33 points higher), and sixth-grade reading (83% versus 54%, 29 points higher). Fifth-grade reading was the closest result to the state: 55%, just 4 points above. Reading averaged 72% across tested grades, compared with 51% statewide; math averaged 61%, compared with 43%. The school was not ahead of the district in every subject: its fifth-grade reading score was 12 points below the district’s 67%, while its science, social studies, and editing and mechanics results were higher than the district’s.
Results improved overall in math and reading across the four grades from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, but varied by grade: fourth-grade reading rose 22 points, while fifth-grade reading fell 10 points. SchoolDigger ranked Symsonia Elementary School 60th of 684 schools, at the 91st percentile, and gave it 5 stars in 2025–2026; in 2023–2024, it ranked 88th of 685, at the 87th percentile, with 4 stars. As context, 57% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio that year was 13.9; chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 11%, close to the district’s 11% and below the state’s 24%.
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