Summary:
Elementary schools in zip code 40065 include five schools in Shelby County: four serving kindergarten through grade 5 and Marnel C. Moorman School, which serves kindergarten through grade 8. Across grades 3–5 in 2025–2026, the schools averaged 32% proficiency in math and 40% in reading, compared with state averages of 43% and 50%. Grade 5 editing and mechanics had the widest shortfall: 30% proficiency locally versus 48% statewide. The most important takeaway is that even the area’s strongest shared-grade averages remained below state averages.
Wright Elementary led the group in average grade 3–5 math, at 40%, and reading, at 45%. Those results were about 10 and 7 percentage points above the other schools’ respective averages, but still below state levels. Painted Stone Elementary had the lowest averages in both subjects: 26% in math and 35% in reading. Southside Elementary offered a different strength, leading fourth-grade science at 38% and having the lowest chronic absenteeism, 7%. Marnel’s results depend on grade: its grade 8 proficiency exceeded state results in math, reading, and social studies, while its grade 3–5 averages were below state averages.
Area-wide math and reading improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the gaps to the state narrowed: math rose about 2 points and reading about 5 points, while the state reading average rose 1 point. SchoolDigger’s percentile rankings also improved for all five schools; Clear Creek Elementary had the largest gain, from 5 to 21, and moved from 650th of 685 schools to 537th of 684. For context, all five reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025, ranging from 43% at Marnel to 64% at Southside; these figures do not explain test results. Student–teacher ratios ranged from 13.7 at Painted Stone to 16.5 at Marnel, and absenteeism was below the state rate at every school.
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