Summary:
Zip code 37769 is home to one elementary school, Lake City Elementary School, which serves grades PK–5 with 387 students in the Anderson County Schools district. Since there is only one school in this area, the focus is on how it compares to district and state averages, and on its own trends over time.
Lake City Elementary shows a striking split in performance. The brightest spot is 5th grade math, where 63.2% of students are proficient—well above the district (50.4%) and state (47.4%). 5th grade science also beats both averages, with 50.9% proficiency. However, early grades struggle significantly: only 16.1% of 3rd graders are proficient in math, compared to the state's 42.6%. English Language Arts is a persistent weakness across all grades, with no grade reaching even 33% proficiency, and the all-grades ELA score of 28.8% is nearly 12 points below the state. The school's overall math proficiency also dropped sharply from 47.6% in 2024–2025 to 37.4% in 2025–2026, a decline of over 10 points that pushed its state ranking down from the 45th to the 29th percentile.
Outside of academics, the school spends $16,328 per student, though comparison data is limited. Chronic absenteeism is slightly elevated at 18.9%, above the district's 17.1% and state's 18.3%. The state ranking has been volatile, swinging from the 26th percentile to the 45th and back to the 29th over three years. For parents, this means Lake City Elementary offers strong upper-grade instruction, especially in math and science, but broad challenges in ELA and early-grade math. The 5th grade results suggest successful strategies exist within the school that could potentially be applied to earlier grades.
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