Summary:
Dorton has one listed school, Dorton Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 263 students in Pike County. In 2025–2026, the school was above Kentucky in 13 of 15 grade-and-subject comparisons, tied in one, and below in one. Because it is the only school in the area, there is no local school-to-school ranking; the most important finding is that strong overall results coexist with a pronounced seventh-grade math weakness.
The clearest strengths were fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics, where 80% met the reported benchmark versus 48% statewide, and fourth-grade Science, at 70% versus 40%. Fifth-grade results also exceeded state results in Mathematics (63% versus 43%), Reading (67% versus 51%), Writing (53% versus 35%), and Social Studies (63% versus 38%). The sharpest concern was seventh-grade Mathematics: 23% versus 39% statewide, a 16-point gap; seventh-grade Reading was also lower, at 41% versus 50%. SchoolDigger ranked Dorton Elementary School 72nd of 684 schools statewide, at the 89th percentile, in 2025–2026.
Results improved relative to the state overall, but not in every subject or grade: across 14 comparable grade-subject results, the school’s average rose about 2 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Kentucky’s average fell about 1 point; the average school-state gap widened from about 7 to 10 points. SchoolDigger’s ranking also improved from 126th of 685, at the 82nd percentile, in 2024–2025. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 13.1 in 2024–2025 and 71% of students free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 39%, compared with 24% statewide and 35% in Pike County.
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