Summary:
Four Caldwell County High School, Caldwell County Primary School, Caldwell County Middle School, and Caldwell County Elementary School serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12 in the Caldwell County area; together, they enroll 1,879 students. Across the supplied 2025–2026 results, the clearest shared strength is editing and mechanics, where schools average 10 points above state results; social studies averages 8 points above, while reading averages 2 points below. Reading is the most consistent area of concern against the state.
The strongest individual results are at the high school: 11th-grade writing is 67%, 20 points above the state’s 47%, and social studies is 50%, 13 points above the state. The elementary school has a strong math profile, with grades 3, 4, and 5 scoring 4, 6, and 10 points above their respective state results, but its 5th-grade writing is 24%, 11 points below the state. The middle school also varies by subject: 8th-grade editing and mechanics is 14 points above the state, while 7th-grade reading is 9 points below.
Relative to the state, results improved only slightly overall from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and trends differed by school: the high school’s average advantage widened from about 5 to 7 points, the middle school’s from about 3 to 4, while the elementary school’s narrowed from about 2 to 1. SchoolDigger’s percentile rankings also moved in different directions: high school fell from the 76th to the 72nd percentile, middle school rose from the 62nd to the 64th, and elementary school rose from the 48th to the 52nd. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible ranged from 51% at the high school to 67% at the primary school; student-teacher ratios ranged from 16.8 to 18.7. The high school also pairs a 97% graduation rate with the area’s highest chronic absenteeism, 29%, compared with 14% at the elementary school. No KSA test scores are supplied for the primary school.
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