Schools in Zip Code 41189

ZIP code 41189 has one listed school, Tollesboro Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 6 and enrolling 256 students, so families cannot compare it with another school in the ZIP code. In 2025–2026, its average reading proficiency across grades 3–6 was 65%, compared with 51% statewide. Mathematics was weaker: the school averaged 34%, versus 43% statewide. Most importantly, math shifted from slightly above the state average the prior year to 9 points below it.

Tollesboro stands out for reading and fifth-grade results, while math is its clearest relative weakness. Reading proficiency exceeded the state in grades 4–6, and fifth-grade writing was 77%, compared with 35% statewide—a 42-point advantage. Fifth-grade social studies and editing and mechanics were also above the state, by 19 and 22 points. In contrast, math was below the state in three of four tested grades; fourth-grade math was 19%, compared with 43% statewide, while sixth-grade math was 46%. Results vary considerably by grade: the school’s math scores ranged from 19% to 46%, and reading scores from 47% to 72%.

Year-to-year results show that the math decline was especially large in fourth grade, where proficiency fell 28 points, from 47% to 19%; math also fell in the other tested grades, by 2 to 9 points. Reading remained a strength overall, though the average advantage over the state narrowed from 19 points in 2024–2025 to 14 points in 2025–2026, in part because third-grade reading fell from 73% to 47%. SchoolDigger ranked Tollesboro 218th of 684 schools, in the 68th percentile with 3 stars, in 2025–2026; its percentile was 79th the year before. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 13.2 and 73% free/reduced lunch eligible, both reported for 2024–2025.