Summary:
Providence has one listed school, Providence Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6, so there is no second local school for comparison. The school enrolls 299 students, and the most important finding is that reading is its clearest academic concern: in 2025–2026, proficiency was 21% in third grade and 24% in fifth grade, 28 and 27 percentage points below Kentucky, respectively.
The school’s strongest reported result is sixth-grade math, while its lowest are third- and fifth-grade reading. Sixth-grade math proficiency was 48%, 6 points above Kentucky’s 42% and 2 points above the 46% for Webster County. By contrast, fourth-grade math was 23%, 20 points below the state, and fifth-grade reading was 24%, 27 points below. Overall, eight of the nine reported subject-and-grade results were below the state figure; sixth-grade math was the exception. Results also vary within reading: sixth-grade proficiency was 52%, just 2 points below the state.
Results and rankings show some improvement, but the pattern is mixed. Across six subject-and-grade results available for both years, the average gap with Kentucky narrowed by 4 percentage points, from 17 points below the state in 2024–2025 to 13 points below in 2025–2026; sixth-grade math rose 22 points, while fifth-grade reading fell 7 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from 619th of 685 schools (10th percentile) in 2024–2025 to 581st of 684 (15th percentile) in 2025–2026, though it remains in the lower part of the ranking. For context, 2024–2025 figures were a 19.9 student-teacher ratio and 77% free/reduced lunch eligible. Chronic absenteeism was 21% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 28% and the state’s 24%. Because Providence Elementary is the only school listed, these figures cannot show how it compares with other local schools.
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