Summary:
Zip code 41164 has one high school, West Carter County High School, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 506 students. In 2025–2026, its graduation rate was 99%, compared with 98% in Carter County and 94% statewide. The main concern alongside that strong completion rate is chronic absenteeism: 35% of students were chronically absent, versus 34% in the district and 24% statewide.
Because this is the only listed school, there are no local schools to rank at the top or bottom against one another. Compared with state results in 2025–2026, West Carter stood out most in 11th-grade Writing, with 54% proficient versus 47% statewide, and 10th-grade Reading, with 54% versus 49%. It was also above the state in Mathematics, Social Studies, and Editing and Mechanics, by 2, 1, and 1 percentage points, respectively. Science was its weakest subject and the only one below the state: 22% proficient versus 23%. Its subject results ranged from 22% to 54%.
Mathematics showed the clearest improvement over time: proficiency rose from 28% in 2024–2025 to 42% in 2025–2026, while the state rate slipped from 41% to 40%. Across the six reported subjects, West Carter’s average advantage over the state improved by 3 percentage points, although results did not rise in every subject: Writing and Social Studies each edged down. SchoolDigger gives the school 3 stars and a statewide rank of 97 out of 262, at the 63rd percentile; its percentile was 48 the prior year and 58 in 2023–2024, so the latest result is an improvement but not a steady upward trend. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 17.8:1, and 62% were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. These figures describe one school and do not permit school-to-school comparisons in the ZIP code.
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