Pickens Elementary/High School
Pickens · WV · Randolph County Schools · Public · K-12 combined
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Tygarts Valley Middle/High School → Buckhannon Upshur High School → Tygart Valley Christian Academy → Webster County High School → Fred W Eberle Tech Center → Braxton County High School → Randolph Technical Center → Elkins High School →📋 At a glance
- 📚 1 AP courses offered — Limited
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 22% of US high schools
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 6% by test-taker volume
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Pickens Elementary/High School compares for families
What families should know about Pickens Elementary/High School.
- ▸ LocallyWV trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−9 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Tygarts Valley Middle/High School, Buckhannon Upshur High School, Tygart Valley Christian Academy and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Limited — narrow advanced curriculum
Bottom 22% of US high schools
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 6% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: A low chronic-absence rate is the cleanest school-level signal of strong family connection, classroom culture, and student engagement — all upstream drivers of enrollment stability. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 29 students:
A small or specialty program — naive trend math doesn't capture the school's full picture. Read the trend as directional, not predictive.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tygarts Valley Middle/High School Mill Creek |
Public | 14.1 | 211 | -17.9% |
| Buckhannon Upshur High School Buckhannon |
Public | 20.9 | 1,068 | -11.1% |
| Tygart Valley Christian Academy Beverly |
Private | 22.8 | 134 | -1.5% |
| Webster County High School Upperglade |
Public | 23.0 | 333 | -6.2% |
| Fred W Eberle Tech Center Buckhannon |
Public | 24.3 | — | — |
| Braxton County High School Sutton |
Public | 24.6 | 481 | -6.8% |
| Randolph Technical Center Elkins |
Public | 25.6 | 1 | — |
| Elkins High School Elkins |
Public | 25.7 | 747 | -5.7% |