Bavel

Bavel is an alternative school in Glasgow, Kentucky, serving grades 1–12 with 227 students; there are no other schools within 20 miles. Its 2025–2026 results vary by grade, but several reported scores are well above state and district results. The clearest strength is social studies: all three grades with reported scores beat both benchmarks.

Bavel also stands out in reading, though not in every grade: 10th-grade reading was 76%, 27 points above the state, and 7th- and 8th-grade results were 17 and 33 points above the state; 5th grade was 1 point below. Reading exceeded the district in all four reported grades, by 1 to 34 points. Math and editing results show a sharper contrast: 8th-grade math was 64%, 25 points above both district and state, while 5th-grade math was 30%, 12 points below the district and 13 below the state. Fifth-grade editing and mechanics was also below both benchmarks, at 40%—6 points below the district and 8 below the state. There is no nearby-school data for direct comparisons.

Reading trends differ by grade: 10th-grade reading fell from 86% in 2022–2023 to 76% in 2025–2026, but remained 27 points above the state; 8th-grade reading rose from 45% to 73%, widening its state advantage to 33 points. In 2024–2025, the student-teacher ratio was 37.8, up from 27.1 the year before. The share eligible for free/reduced lunch was 21.6% that year, compared with 20.3% in 2023–2024 and 12.6% in 2022–2023. These figures are context, not explanations for test results. Bavel’s SchoolDigger rank and stars were not provided, and some test results—including all 2025–2026 science results—were suppressed.