Summary:
ZIP code 41179 has two elementary schools, Lewis County Central Elementary School and Laurel Elementary School; both serve prekindergarten through grade 6. The most important finding is that Central’s average across its 12 reported subject-and-grade results fell to 31% in 2025–2026, 14 percentage points below the matching state average of 45%.
Lewis County Central Elementary School has the broadest results to compare and was closest to the state in fifth-grade writing: 33% proficient, just 2 points below the state’s 35%. Its largest gap was fifth-grade social studies, at 14% versus 38% statewide, or 24 points below; its grade 3–6 math average was also 16 points below the state. The two reported fifth-grade comparisons for Laurel Elementary School point in different directions: Central led by 8 points in reading, 35% to 27%, while Laurel led by 4 points in social studies, 18% to 14%. Both schools were below the state in both subjects, so these results do not establish an overall winner. Laurel has only these two reported results for 2025–2026; most of its other listed results are state-suppressed.
Central’s results moved farther below the state over time: its average across the same 12 results dropped from 39% in 2024–2025 to 31% in 2025–2026, while the state average rose from 44% to 45%. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rank for Central also fell, from 44 in 2023–2024 to 17 in 2025–2026; Laurel’s fell from 85 in 2021–2022 to 51 in 2023–2024, with no later rank provided. As context, in 2024–2025 Central enrolled 466 students, had a 15.9 student-teacher ratio, and reported 69% free/reduced lunch eligible; Laurel enrolled 70, had a 15.4 ratio, and reported 80% free/reduced lunch eligible. These measures do not explain the mixed fifth-grade results between the schools.
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