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Christian County


At a glance
111thof 158 Kentucky districts▼ 1
Better than 29% of Kentucky districts
200 Glass Ave
Hopkinsville, KY 42240-0609
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Statewide performance 2018–2026
2026: better than 29.7% of districts
19
Schools
8,087
Students
Top rankedHopkinsville High School100th of 262 Kentucky high schools
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Biggest riser
Hopkinsville High School up 43 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Bluegrass Learning Academy 8.5 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
3★
2★
1★
0★
8 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Christian County has 16 schools: seven elementary, two middle, four high and three alternative schools, serving students from elementary through high school. In 2025–2026, pooled school results averaged below the state in mathematics by 4 percentage points, reading by 3, science by 1, writing by 5 and social studies by 6; editing and mechanics averaged 2 points above the state. The most important finding is that results are uneven across schools and subjects, rather than uniformly strong or weak.

Several schools stand out for stronger results: Sinking Fork Elementary was above the state in 8 of 10 reported results, including Grade 3 reading at 58% versus 49%; Millbrooke Elementary was above the state in 7 of 10, including Grade 5 reading at 62% versus 51%. Hopkinsville High School led the other conventional high school in all six subjects. At the other end, Freedom Elementary fell below the state in all nine results it reported; its Grade 5 math score was 10%, compared with 43% statewide. Elementary-school spreads were wide: Grade 5 math ranged from 10% at Freedom to 53% at Millbrooke.

Recent high-school trends also differ: Hopkinsville High’s six matched scores rose by an average of 4 percentage points, while Christian County High School’s fell by an average of 2 points; Christian County High’s writing score dropped 12 points. The middle-school pattern was more favorable at Christian County Middle School, whose matched scores rose by an average of 3 points, while Hopkinsville Middle School’s fell by an average of 3. SchoolDigger statewide percentiles moved from 41 to 62 for Hopkinsville High and from 49 to 30 for Christian County High between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. Context figures do not neatly track results: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 83% at Freedom and 72% at Sinking Fork, while student–teacher ratios were 13.3 and 15.3, respectively.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kentucky Department of Education.

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