LaRue County

LaRue County has five schools—two elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and one alternative school—with reported test results spanning grades 3–11; the clearest area-wide finding is that writing and social studies results are stronger relative to the state, while science results are weaker.

Hodgenville Elementary has the strongest state-relative result: its third-grade math proficiency was 61%, 18 points above the state and 17 points above Abraham Lincoln Elementary at 44%. Abraham Lincoln stands out in other elementary comparisons, including fifth-grade reading (56% versus 53% at Hodgenville) and social studies (44% versus 32%). The largest shortfall is Hodgenville’s fourth-grade reading, at 36% versus 50% statewide; Abraham Lincoln’s fifth-grade math was also below state results, at 33% versus 43%. LaRue County Middle School was above the state in eighth-grade writing by 9 points and social studies by 8 points.

Results improved at the elementary schools but declined at the secondary schools from 2024–25 to 2025–26: average scores rose 2 points per matched test at Hodgenville and 4 at Abraham Lincoln, while they fell 7 points at the middle school and 5 at LaRue County High School. SchoolDigger’s statewide rankings also fell from the 2023–24 to 2025–26 school years at the high school (73rd to 53rd percentile) and middle school (67th to 53rd); the elementary paths were mixed. Staffing and income measures do not establish a simple performance ordering: the elementary schools’ student–teacher ratios were 14.8 and 15.9, while their free/reduced lunch eligible measures were 59% and 61%, respectively, in 2024–25. The Life Connection had 39 students, and its test results are state-suppressed, so they cannot be compared.