Summary:
Bledsoe, Kentucky, has one listed school: Green Hills Elementary School, a PK–8 school with 147 students. In 2025–2026, its average proficiency across reported grades was 52% in reading, 42% in mathematics and 55% in science; compared with Kentucky averages for those same reported grades, that is 3 points higher in reading, 1 point higher in mathematics and 21 points higher in science. The most important takeaway is that results vary sharply by grade and subject: seventh-grade science was 39 points above the state, while eighth-grade mathematics was 14 points below.
Green Hills’ strongest individual result was sixth-grade reading, with 73% proficient versus 54% statewide, a 19-point advantage; seventh-grade science was another standout, at 67% versus 28%. Its clearest weak spots were third- and eighth-grade mathematics, both at 25% proficient: 18 points below the state in grade 3 and 14 points below in grade 8. The pattern is not uniformly strong or weak across subjects: seventh-grade mathematics was 42%, just 3 points above the state, while eighth-grade reading was 42%, 2 points above. There is no second listed school, so a local school-to-school ranking is not possible.
Comparable results declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: across the same six mathematics and reading grade-level results, Green Hills’ average fell from 63% to 46%, a 17-point drop, while the state average barely changed, from 44.2% to 43.8%. The school’s advantage over the state narrowed from 19 points to 2. SchoolDigger’s ranking also fell, from 117th of 685 schools (83rd percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 292nd of 684 (57th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. As context, in 2024–2025 the school had a student–teacher ratio of 13.3 and 84% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 25%, 2 points above the state’s 24% and 21 points below the Harlan County district’s 46%.
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