Summary:
Happy, Kentucky, has one listed school, Robert W Combs Elementary School, serving PK–8 and enrolling 325 students. In 2025–2026, every reportable KSA proficiency result at the school was below the matching state result. The largest gaps were in 5th-grade math and editing and mechanics, each 23 percentage points below the state. The central takeaway is that all reportable results trail the state, with particularly large gaps in those two areas.
There are no other listed schools for a school-to-school comparison, so the strongest and weakest results are within Robert W Combs. Its results came closest to the state in 8th-grade social studies, at 38% versus 39%, and 7th-grade reading, at 48% versus 50%. The widest gaps were in 5th-grade math, 20% versus 43%, and 5th-grade editing and mechanics, 25% versus 48%. Across the reported grades, editing and mechanics was the weakest subject relative to the state: the school averaged 25% compared with 45% statewide, a 20-point gap. Science results for both tested grades were suppressed.
Results changed unevenly over time: math improved, but the overall set of matched results moved further behind the state. The school’s three-grade math average rose from 26% to 29% as the state average fell from 42% to 40%, narrowing the gap from 16 to 12 points. Across 13 matched grade-subject results, however, the gap widened from 10 to 12 points; 7th-grade reading rose 20 points while 8th-grade reading fell 19. SchoolDigger gives the school one star and ranks it 611th of 684 Kentucky schools, at the 11th percentile, for 2025–2026; its percentile rank was 19th in 2023–2024. Context figures include a 13.2:1 student-teacher ratio and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 40%, compared with 24% statewide, and the dropout rate was 2%, compared with 1% statewide.
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