Summary:
Zip code 22834, covering the Linville area of Virginia, is served by a single elementary school: Linville-Edom Elementary, a PK-5 school with 209 students in the Rockingham County Public Schools district. With just one school in the area, this analysis focuses entirely on Linville-Edom's performance, which presents a study in contrasts across subjects, grade levels, and time.
Linville-Edom's clear strengths include attendance, early literacy, and fifth-grade reading. Chronic absenteeism sits at just 7.8%, far better than the district rate of 11.0% and the state rate of 14.8%, an especially bright spot given that 63.16% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. In 2025-2026, fifth-grade English reading proficiency reached 75%, outperforming both the district (69.11%) and state (72.42%). Third-grade mathematics was also solid at 69.7% proficiency, above the district average of 65.4%. However, significant weaknesses exist in upper-elementary math and science. Fifth-grade math proficiency plunged to just 46.88%, roughly 25 points below both the district (71.32%) and state (72.39%) averages, while fifth-grade science fell to 59.38%, below both benchmarks. Fourth-grade reading also lags at 59.38% proficiency compared to the district's 69.18% and state's 73.7%.
The school's performance has been volatile from year to year, likely due to its small cohort sizes. Fourth-grade math improved by 16 points year-over-year to 64.52%, but fifth-grade math dropped by nearly 14 points and fifth-grade science dropped by over 13 points. Statewide, Linville-Edom's ranking has slipped from the 39th percentile in 2023-2024 to the 27th percentile in 2025-2026, with its star rating falling from 2 stars to 1. Per-student spending is $10,895, and the student-teacher ratio is a favorable 14.1:1. Overall, this is a small school with strong attendance and reading outcomes in later grades, but the fifth-grade math deficit is the most urgent area for intervention as students prepare for middle school.
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