Summary:
Brodhead, Kentucky, has one listed school, Brodhead Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 in the Rockcastle County district, with 493 students. Because it is the only school listed, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the clearest picture comes from comparing its results with district and state rates. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026 the school was above the state proficiency rate in all 10 reported subject-and-grade results.
Brodhead Elementary stands out most in grade 5, with proficiency of 84% in math, 85% in reading, 71% in writing, 75% in social studies and 75% in editing and mechanics. Compared with state rates, those results were higher by 41, 34, 36, 37 and 27 percentage points, respectively; the school also exceeded district rates in each of those tests. Its smallest state advantage was in grade 3 math: 47% proficient versus 43% statewide, a 4-point difference. Across all 10 results, the average was 65% at the school, 51% in the district and 44% statewide.
Results moved upward overall in the six subject-and-grade tests available for both years, but not in every area: the school’s average rose about 2 percentage points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, compared with about 1 point statewide, while grade 4 reading fell 3 points. Grade 5 social studies fell 13 points and editing and mechanics fell 4 points, though both remained above state rates. SchoolDigger ranked Brodhead Elementary 89th of 684 statewide in 2025–2026, in the 87th percentile with four stars; its percentile rose 7 points from the prior year, but was 8 points below 2023–2024. Additional context: the student-teacher ratio was 14.5 in 2024–2025, and 68% of students were eligible for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025.
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