Covington Independent

The nine schools in Covington Independent include five elementary schools, one middle school, two high schools and an alternative school. SchoolDigger ranks the district 134th of 158 statewide, in the 15th percentile with one star; across available 2025–2026 results, just 11 of 64 school-grade-subject results were above the state. The clearest shared concern is writing and editing and mechanics: school averages were 20 and 32 percent, respectively, compared with state averages of 39 and 48 percent.

Glenn O Swing Elementary stands out most often among elementary schools, leading in five grade-subject comparisons, including grade 4 math at 57 percent and grade 5 reading at 57 percent. But results vary: its grade 5 writing score was 10 percent, the lowest reported among elementary schools. John G Carlisle Elementary led grade 5 math at 55 percent, 34 points above Sixth District Elementary School at 21 percent; Latonia Elementary School led grade 3 math at 47 percent. Sixth District also had the lowest grade 5 social studies result, 25 percent. At the secondary level, all ten reported results at Holmes Middle School and all six at Holmes High School were below state results. Holmes High’s graduation rate was 91 percent, above the district’s 87 percent but below the state’s 94 percent; its chronic absenteeism was 34 percent, compared with 21 percent districtwide.

Recent results and rankings show that schools are moving in different directions. Across 64 school results available in both years, scores fell by an average of 2 points while corresponding state results were essentially unchanged; Ninth District Elementary gained an average of 9 points across its paired results, while Glenn O Swing fell by an average of 11. SchoolDigger places Glenn O Swing highest among ranked schools at the 48th percentile, though it dropped 30 percentile points since 2023–2024; Ninth District rose from the 13th to the 27th percentile in the latest year. As context, elementary free/reduced lunch eligible rates in 2024–2025 ranged from 78 percent at Glenn O Swing to 88 percent at Sixth District, and student-teacher ratios ranged from 11.1 at Ninth District to 13.3 at Sixth District. The Transformational Learning Center’s test results are suppressed, and no test results are listed for Covington Adult High School.