Summary:
Hardin County CUSD 1 has one elementary school, Hardin County Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade with 216 students. With no other elementary school in the list, there is no school-to-school leader or trailer. The clearest takeaway is a split in the school’s latest results: ELA is well above the state, while all-grades math is below it.
Hardin County Elementary stands out for ELA: in 2025–2026, 70% of students were proficient, compared with 56% statewide, a 14-point advantage. Its all-grades math result was 35%, versus 40% statewide, 5 points lower; fifth-grade science was stronger, at 54% compared with 48% statewide, a 6-point advantage. ELA was above state results in each reported grade: third grade was 75% versus 48%, fourth grade 63% versus 56%, and fifth grade 73% versus 55%. The available third-grade math result was also above the state, at 56% versus 49%, but the fourth- and fifth-grade math figures are not available.
Results have moved in different directions by subject: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, ELA rose from 52% to 70%, while math fell from 40% to 35%; fifth-grade science increased from 42% to 54%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking also improved, from 1,269th of 2,067 schools (39th percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 511th of 1,737 (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026. For context, the school’s student–teacher ratio was 10.5 in 2024–2025, and 67% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch that year; these figures describe the school, not a cause of its results. Chronic absenteeism was 25% in 2025–2026, 1 point above the state rate and 10 points below the district rate.
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