Summary
Culleoka Unit School, a rural PK–12 public school in Culleoka, Tennessee, serves 868 students and is part of Maury County Schools, a district that ranks in the 40th percentile of Tennessee districts. It is the largest of the three unit schools in the district, ahead of Hampshire Unit School (414 students) and Santa Fe Unit School (553 students), and spends slightly less per student ($13,001) than either of its rural neighbors.
Culleoka's biggest strengths are its graduation rate and attendance. The school graduates 96.0% of its students, well above the district's 86.7% and the state's 90.5%, and its dropout rate of 4.0% is less than half the district average. Chronic absenteeism, at 13.7%, is also below district and state levels. Academically, the school is a strong performer in the earlier grades, particularly in 6th grade, where proficiency rates in math, ELA, science, and social studies all exceed district and state averages by significant margins. Culleoka has also shown steady year-over-year improvement across all-grades math (28.7% to 45.4% proficiency), ELA (31.9% to 42.8%), and social studies (25.9% to 58.4%).
The main concern is at the high school level. Proficiency on End-of-Course exams is far below state averages and dramatically below nearby schools. For example, only 12.3% of Culleoka students scored proficient in geometry, compared to 56.4% at Santa Fe Unit School, and just 34.6% were proficient in English II, versus 68.3% at Santa Fe. This tension between a 96% graduation rate and weak EOC proficiency is the school's central challenge, and it suggests that students may be graduating without meeting rigorous academic benchmarks. Early-grade strength also fades by 8th grade, when proficiency drops below state averages in every subject, a pattern that may be compounding by high school.
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