Summary:
Sandgap, Kentucky, has one listed school, Sand Gap Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 286 students. With no other local school to compare, parents can look at its results against the state and Jackson County. The clearest finding is that the school scored above Kentucky in all nine reported 2025–2026 subject-and-grade results, averaging 16 percentage points higher across them.
Third-grade reading was the school’s standout result: 81% were proficient, 32 points above the state and 8 points above the district. Third-grade math was also notably strong at 73%, 30 points above the state. The lowest results were fifth-grade math and social studies, both 49%; even so, fifth-grade math was 6 points above the state and district, while social studies was 11 points above the state and 6 above the district. Results were not higher than the district’s in every grade: fourth-grade reading was 62% versus 70%, and fourth-grade math was 54% versus 61%. The school’s fourth-grade science result was not reported for 2025–2026.
Results improved across all nine matched subject-and-grade comparisons from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: the school’s average rose from 51% to 61%, while the state average stayed at 44%. The largest gains included 16 points in both fifth-grade math and reading and 14 points in third-grade reading. SchoolDigger’s ranking also improved, from 281 of 685 schools (59th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 105 of 684 (85th percentile) in 2025–2026. As context, the school had a 14.3:1 student-teacher ratio and 81% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025. Chronic absenteeism was 29% in 2025–2026, 6 points above the state and 8 points below the district.
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