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.
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