Best Public Schools in Radcliff, KY

Radcliff, Kentucky, has seven listed schools: four elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and one alternative school, covering elementary through high school as well as an alternative setting. Current KSA proficiency results are available for five schools; North Park and Lincoln Trail have no supplied test scores, and two results are state-suppressed. The clearest concern is the gap from state results: the three tested elementary schools averaged 13–15 percentage points below state averages across reported subjects, while North Middle averaged 28% compared with 49% for the state, a 21-point gap.

Meadow View Elementary School and Woodland Elementary School stand out in different areas: Meadow View led six of 10 elementary subject-and-grade comparisons, including all three math grades, while Woodland led grade 5 reading, writing, social studies, and editing and mechanics. Woodland’s grade 5 reading score was 49%, just 2 points below the state; Meadow View scored 33% in that same comparison. Radcliff Elementary School had the lowest result in four comparisons, including grade 3 math, where it scored 13% versus Meadow View’s 32%. North Middle was below state proficiency in all nine reported comparisons, by 11–24 points. North Hardin High School was 3–4 points above state proficiency in four of six subjects.

Across 43 comparable school results, scores fell by an average of 2 points while state results were essentially unchanged, widening the average gap by 2 points. North Middle and Meadow View had the largest average declines among the listed schools, at 7 and 4 points per comparable result, while Woodland’s average was essentially flat; Woodland’s grade 5 editing and mechanics score rose 17 points. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking for North Middle fell from 14 in 2023–2024 to 6 in 2025–2026, while Meadow View’s rose from 13 to 22. For context, all seven schools report free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–2025: the three tested elementary schools ranged from 69% at Radcliff to 72% at Woodland. Their student-teacher ratios ranged from 13.7:1 at Radcliff to 14.7:1 at Woodland; these characteristics do not by themselves explain the different test results.