Summary:
The six schools in Breckinridge County serve prekindergarten through grade 12 and enroll 2,677 students. Their 2025–26 test results average about 1 point above state levels across reported school-grade-subject comparisons, but that near-state average conceals wide differences among grades, subjects and schools. The most important takeaway is that families should look beyond the area-wide average: a school’s results can vary sharply by subject and grade.
Ben Johnson Elementary stands out in several fifth-grade subjects: its 55% in math is 12 points above the state, and its 55% in reading is 4 points above; it also leads the local fifth-grade results in social studies and editing and mechanics. In fourth-grade science, Ben Johnson scores 64%, 24 points above the state, just ahead of Irvington Elementary at 63%. Custer Elementary has weaker reported results in several comparisons: its fourth-grade math is 10 points below the state, fourth-grade science is 10 points below, and fifth-grade writing is 9 points below. The middle school is above state results in most listed comparisons; the high school is closer to the state, though its 99% graduation rate is a strength. High-school chronic absenteeism, at 45%, is also notably high—21 points above the state.
Recent test-score changes are encouraging overall, but not uniform: across 50 matched comparisons, school scores rose an average of 5 points while state scores were essentially unchanged. Average changes were up 9 points at Irvington and 6 at the middle school, while Breckinridge County High School was slightly down. SchoolDigger’s three-year percentile rankings rose 27 points at Irvington and 18 at Ben Johnson, but fell 19 at Custer. The schools also differ in context, without those differences explaining test results: free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25 range from 54% at the high school to 72% at Irvington, and the four elementary schools’ student-teacher ratios are between 13.0 and 14.0.
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