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Sebastian Elementary School

Public Grades 3-6
546th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 684 Kentucky Elementary Schools
Better than 20% of Kentucky elementary schools
Summary

Sebastian Elementary School serves 393 students in grades 3–6 in Jackson, in Breathitt County, which SchoolDigger ranks 98th of 158 districts. The main concern for families is that tested proficiency is generally below state, district, and nearby-school comparisons, with mathematics and social studies showing the widest gaps.

In 2025–26, the school’s average proficiency was 30% in math, compared with 38% for the district, 43% for the state, and 48% for nearby schools; in social studies, it was 26%, versus 34%, 38%, and 43%, respectively. Reading was 40%, compared with 46% for the district, 51% for the state, and 52% nearby. Science is a relative bright spot: 35% was 5 points below the state and district and 9 points below nearby schools. The school was below nearby averages in all six reported subjects. Grade 6 reading was its strongest grade-level result at 44%, but it remained below the state and district at 54% and 51%; Campton Elementary School, the only nearby school with a reported grade 6 reading result, also scored 51%.

Results over time are mixed: from 2022–23 to 2025–26, science rose 8 points and reading rose 3, while writing fell 15 points and social studies fell 14; math was essentially flat. SchoolDigger ranks the school 546th of 684 statewide, at the 20th percentile with 1 star, up from the 15th percentile in 2021–22 but still second-lowest among nearby ranked schools. Its student-teacher ratio was 17.9 in 2024–25, the highest in the comparison group, whose ratios ranged from 10.8 to 17.1. In that same year, 79% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, close to the nearby average of 81%; this is context, not an explanation for results. Chronic absenteeism fell from 45% in 2021–22 to 31% in 2025–26, but remained above the district’s 27% and state’s 24%. SchoolDigger’s Special Education Students ranking was notably stronger than the school’s overall standing: the group ranked at the 62nd percentile versus 20th overall in 2025–26. Its Homeless Students ranking also rose, from the 0th percentile in 2023–24 to the 17th in 2025–26, though that comparison covered only 18 schools.

393
Students ?
17.9
Student/teacher ratio ?
$16,420
Per pupil spending ?
79.1%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
 244 LBJ Road
       Jackson, KY  41339

(606) 666-8894

District: Breathitt County

Racial breakdown:

White:
97.5%
Hispanic:
2.5%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Recently slipping — 29th percentile in 2019 → 20th in 2026
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Kentucky average (34% vs 45% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (20th percentile)
!High chronic absenteeism (31% vs 24% Kentucky)
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school34%
District avg40%
Kentucky avg45%
546th of 684
Kentucky public elementary schools ?
Bottom 20%▲ up 16 pts since 2016
From bottom 4% (2016) to bottom 20% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
2nd of 2Elementary Schools in the Breathitt County
98th of 158Breathitt County among Kentucky districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202624.3546 of 68420.2%★☆☆☆☆
202522.8552 of 68519.4%★☆☆☆☆
202422.4556 of 68518.8%★☆☆☆☆
202328.8503 of 68726.8%★☆☆☆☆
202220.0581 of 68415.1%★☆☆☆☆
202110.9503 of 5172.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201937.6494 of 70029.4%★☆☆☆☆
201827.9557 of 69119.4%★☆☆☆☆
201719.7601 of 69413.4%★☆☆☆☆
201610.8660 of 6904.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201512.5659 of 6985.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201421.6620 of 70512.1%★☆☆☆☆
201342.1452 of 71937.1%★★☆☆☆
201229.4561 of 71321.3%★☆☆☆☆
201167.5199 of 68871.1%★★★★☆
201078.8102 of 68385.1%★★★★☆
200970.7173 of 65873.7%★★★★☆
200868.9186 of 65171.4%★★★★☆
200753.3301 of 63852.8%★★★☆☆

Disabled

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
201960.0143 of 47469.8%★★★★☆
201852.5170 of 44561.8%★★★☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202620.0558 of 65715.1%★☆☆☆☆
202521.8531 of 64818.1%★☆☆☆☆
202426.4507 of 64421.3%★☆☆☆☆
202336.1425 of 63933.5%★★☆☆☆
202228.2484 of 64124.5%★☆☆☆☆
201950.1361 of 67146.2%★★☆☆☆
201848.5357 of 66346.2%★★☆☆☆

Homeless

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202624.715 of 1816.7%★☆☆☆☆
202528.517 of 1910.5%★☆☆☆☆
202415.118 of 180.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202346.09 of 1850.0%★★★☆☆
202223.317 of 170.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201889.82 of 3494.1%★★★★★

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202627.4526 of 67422.0%★☆☆☆☆
202423.1544 of 66518.2%★☆☆☆☆
202328.6508 of 67024.2%★☆☆☆☆
202216.3605 of 6679.3%☆☆☆☆☆
201936.2470 of 66429.2%★☆☆☆☆
201829.4509 of 63119.3%★☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202628.0498 of 65123.5%★☆☆☆☆
202522.7538 of 65317.6%★☆☆☆☆
202418.9557 of 65214.6%★☆☆☆☆
202320.6538 of 65217.5%★☆☆☆☆
202218.3566 of 65713.9%★☆☆☆☆
201929.9536 of 67620.7%★☆☆☆☆
201818.3599 of 6659.9%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202649.7120 of 31461.8%★★★☆☆
202539.1180 of 30641.2%★★☆☆☆
202449.6118 of 27957.7%★★★☆☆
202356.178 of 25769.6%★★★★☆
201934.2488 of 66126.2%★☆☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202617.0582 of 65010.5%★☆☆☆☆
202515.8597 of 6599.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202415.7600 of 6599.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202321.3554 of 65815.8%★☆☆☆☆
202212.6622 of 6565.2%☆☆☆☆☆
201936.1420 of 59229.1%★☆☆☆☆
201824.3505 of 59314.8%★☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
Disabled (2019)70th percentile+40 vs school
Special Education (2026)62nd percentile+42 vs school
Male (2026)24th percentile+3 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)22nd percentile~ school
Homeless (2026)17th percentile-4 vs school
Female (2026)15th percentile-5 vs school
White (2026)10th percentile-10 vs school
By subject vs Kentucky (2025-2026) ?
Reading40%-11 vs state
Editing and Mechanics40%-8 vs state
Science35%-5 vs state
Mathematics30%-13 vs state
Social Studies26%-12 vs state
Writing25%-10 vs state

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Students at Sebastian Elementary School are 97% White, 3% Hispanic.

Sebastian Elementary School ranks in the bottom 20.2% of Kentucky elementary schools.

In the 2024-25 school year, 393 students attended Sebastian Elementary School.

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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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