Summary:
Betsy Layne, Kentucky, has one listed school, Betsy Layne Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 638 students. With no other listed schools in the city, families are comparing the school’s results with same-grade results for Kentucky and Floyd County, not with local school peers. The clearest overall finding is that writing is the school’s only subject average above the state’s; reading and social studies have the largest gaps below it.
Writing is the school’s strongest subject, but the result is driven by eighth grade: proficiency averaged 48% across grades 5 and 8, compared with 42% statewide, while grade 8 alone was 62% versus 48% statewide. Fifth-grade writing was 33%, 2 points below the state. Reading and social studies are the clearest concerns: reading averaged 37% versus 49% statewide, and social studies averaged 27% versus 39%. The school was below the state in every reported reading and social-studies grade. Math averaged 31%, 11 points below the state’s 42%; grade 4 math was a low point at 22% versus 43% statewide.
Results moved modestly closer to state levels overall: across 19 matched subject-grade results, the school’s average rose from 34% in 2024–25 to 35% in 2025–26, and its gap narrowed by about 2 points. Trends differed by subject: math, editing and mechanics, and grade 4 science improved, while reading slipped 1 point and social studies fell 7 points on their respective averages. SchoolDigger gave the school one star and ranked it 521st of 684 Kentucky schools (24th percentile) in 2025–26, up from 531st (22nd percentile) the year before. Chronic absenteeism was 37%, compared with 24% statewide. The school reported 83% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25 and a 15.6 student-teacher ratio that year; these are context, not explanations for achievement. With only one school listed, local school-to-school comparisons are not available.
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