Summary:
Linville, Virginia is served by a single school, Linville-Edom Elementary, a PK-5 school with 209 students in the Rockingham County Public Schools district. Because there is only one school, this summary focuses entirely on that school's performance. The school serves a high-poverty community, with more than 63% of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch, but it maintains a strong attendance record, with only 7.8% chronic absenteeism — roughly half the state rate of 14.8%.
Linville-Edom Elementary shows mixed academic performance. In the most recent testing year (2025-2026), the school's greatest strength is 5th grade reading, where 75% of students are proficient — above both the district (69.11%) and state (72.42%). VA Studies in 4th grade also came in slightly above the state average at 70.97%. However, math is a major concern across every grade. Most striking is 5th grade math, where only 46.88% of students are proficient, a gap of 25.51 percentage points below the state average. 5th grade science also declined sharply, dropping from 72.73% to 59.38% year over year.
The school's state ranking has slipped from the 39th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 27th percentile in both 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, despite some improvements. Reading improved in every grade, 4th grade math jumped 16 points, and VA Studies rose nearly 10 points. The declines in 5th grade math and science, however, may be pulling the ranking down. The school has a solid foundation — a low student-teacher ratio of 14.1 and per-student spending of $10,895 — so the challenges appear concentrated in upper-elementary math and science instruction, which should be the top priority for improvement.
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