Summary:
ZIP code 37387 contains exactly one school — Tracy Elementary School — serving 358 students in grades PK through 8 in the small community of Tracy City, Tennessee, within the Grundy County Schools district.
Tracy Elementary School is the only school in this ZIP code, so it is the focus of this analysis. The school is classified as an elementary school, but its grade span extends through middle school, making it a PK-8 building. It holds a 1-star rating but is steadily improving: its state ranking rose from 855th out of 1018 schools in 2023-2024 to 762nd out of 1019 in 2025-2026, moving from the 16th to the 25th percentile. In 2025-2026, overall proficiency rates were 31.6% in math, 24.1% in English language arts, 31.6% in science, and 25.9% in social studies — all below state averages. The largest gap was in social studies, where the school trailed the state by 25.5 percentage points.
On a positive note, Tracy Elementary School improved in every tested subject from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, with gains ranging from +1.0 point in ELA to +6.9 points in social studies. The school's strongest area is 3rd grade math, where 45.7% of students scored proficient, outperforming both the district and the state. However, proficiency declines sharply by 8th grade, with only 19.2% proficient in math and 11.5% in ELA, suggesting middle-grade students need stronger support. Chronic absenteeism sits at 16.5%, slightly better than the district's 16.8% and the state's 18.3%. It is also important to note that the school belongs to Grundy County Schools, which ranks 106th out of 141 Tennessee districts. Data on free/reduced lunch and student-teacher ratio was not available, limiting a fuller assessment of socioeconomic and staffing factors.
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