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I think that pretty much sums up how great the schools are in Campbell County. Note the 66% beside the free/reduced lunch programs and the 75.6% beside the Title 1

Also note each resident there now pays the highest wheel tax in the state for the improvements. You are new to the area and well uneducated to the struggles and in general big improvements in Campbell County. Most living wage jobs are still 25 miles south of that area. Before the wheel tax the buses stopped running quite often as the county was BROKE! Big deal you might think? Some of these kids ride an hour plus on back mountain roads to get to school. When those scores were taken many didn't make it because they could not get there. That wasn't anyones fault there were no jobs. No jobs, no industry, no taxable income for the county to operate.

In general things are improving up there. Industry coming into neighboring counties means JOBS to former COAL MINERS whose jobs were CLOSED DOWN BY LIBREALS. You know nothing of this region and it's struggles of the past few years. Try this one. Type in Lafollette Tennessee +fire works plant explosion.

I guessed earlier in this thread what happened and I was right. The kids was using drugs. That happens everywhere including your high dollar prep schools. I could tell you some stories about some students in private schools that would make you blush from their so called civilized behavior.

In my lifetime {I'm 48} communities in that county were owned by mining companies. They owned the stores, all the homes, and in general the workers for less than livable wages. They lived in shacks you could not begin to imagine. They worked and their kids worked in the mines.

They started closing down roughly in the late 1960's and now even the far more safer strip mines are shut down because our government buys coal from other states or overseas. The area is just now recovering. Simply put much of the area wasn't fit for anything but either timbering or mining. Up until very recently even Jacksboro and the Lafollette area was considered too far out of the way for industry. That has changed in part due to the Cumberland Gap Tunnel opening.