Summary
Cannonsburg Elementary School is a 272-student school serving grades K–5 in Ashland, Boyd County. Its latest results show both clear strengths and areas that need attention: fifth-grade writing and fourth-grade reading stand out, while editing and mechanics, fourth-grade math, and fifth-grade reading are weaker. The most important takeaway is that achievement varies considerably by subject and grade, rather than being consistently strong or weak.
Writing and fourth-grade reading compare favorably with district, state, and nearby results. Fifth-grade writing proficiency was 51%, compared with 25% in Boyd County and 35% statewide; the average among nearby schools with reported scores was 37%. Fourth-grade reading was 62%, above the district’s 52% and the state’s 50%, and above the nearby-school average of 51%. The contrast is clear in other results: editing and mechanics was 32%, below the district’s 51% and the state’s 48%, and second-lowest among nearby schools with scores. Fourth-grade math was 36%, compared with 43% in both the district and state, while fifth-grade reading was 35%, below the district’s 43% and the state’s 51%. Some nearby-school scores were not reported, so those comparisons use only available results.
Results have improved in some areas over time, but not across the board: from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026, fourth-grade science rose 18 points and fifth-grade writing rose 29 points, while fourth-grade math fell 7 points and fifth-grade editing and mechanics fell 2. SchoolDigger ranks Cannonsburg 377th of 684 Kentucky schools, at the 45th percentile with 2 stars; its percentile rose from 12 in 2021–2022 but has stayed at 45 for the past two years. Attendance is a positive trend: chronic absenteeism declined 18 points from 2022–2023 to 2025–2026 and is now 21%, versus 28% in the district and 24% statewide. The student-teacher ratio is 11.5:1, below the nearby-school average of 13.2:1. In 2024–2025, 67% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, close to the nearby-school average of 66%. SchoolDigger’s 72nd-percentile ranking for Special Education Students is notably higher than the school’s overall 45th-percentile standing, a positive current indicator of how well it serves that group.
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