Summary:
Ezel, Kentucky, has one listed school, Ezel Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 114 students. The school’s results vary substantially by grade and subject: in 2025–2026, grade 5 reading was 37 percentage points above Kentucky’s rate, while grade 4 reading was 17 points below it.
Ezel Elementary is the area’s only school, so there is no local school-to-school top or bottom; its strongest and weakest results are within the school itself. Fifth-grade reading stood out at 88%, compared with 51% statewide, and fifth-grade social studies was 63%, versus 38% statewide. By contrast, fourth-grade reading was 33% compared with 50% statewide, and fourth-grade science was 33% compared with 40%. Math also differed by grade: grade 3 was 67%—24 points above the state—while grade 5 was 38%, five points below. The state suppressed the school’s 2025–2026 grade 3 reading result, so it is unknown.
Results changed unevenly over time: the school’s average math proficiency for grades 3–5 rose from 46% in 2024–2025 to 50% in 2025–2026, while its average reading proficiency for grades 4–5 fell from 75% to 61%; grade 5 writing also declined from 65% to 44%. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 97th of 685 schools (86th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024 to 219th of 684 (68th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026, an 18-point percentile decline. As context, the student-teacher ratio was 10.8 in 2024–2025, and 65% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 24%, matching the state rate and below Morgan County’s 29%.
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