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Lansdowne Elementary School

Public Grades PK, KG-5
540th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 684 Kentucky Elementary Schools
Better than 21% of Kentucky elementary schools
Summary

Lansdowne Elementary School in Lexington serves 610 students in pre-K through grade 5 in Fayette County, a district rated 3 stars and in the 59th percentile statewide by SchoolDigger. The clearest concern for families is that Lansdowne’s 2025–2026 proficiency rates were below state and district figures in every tested subject.

Writing is the sharpest weakness, while science is the strongest relative result—but still trails local and state benchmarks. In grade 5 writing, 14% of Lansdowne students were proficient, compared with 35% statewide, 39% districtwide, and a 48% nearby-school average; Lansdowne had the lowest writing result among the nearby schools. Grade 5 reading was also low at 34%, below every nearby school, including Millcreek Elementary School at 51%. In grade 4 science, 35% were proficient, 5 points below the state and 7 below the district—the smallest gaps among Lansdowne’s subjects. Grade 4 was also the school’s strongest snapshot in math and reading, at 39% and 44% proficient, respectively.

Results have improved in science and editing, but not across the board: science rose 11 points and Editing and Mechanics rose 20 points from the earliest to latest years shown, while writing stayed at 14% and reading gained just 1 point. SchoolDigger ranks Lansdowne in the 21st percentile statewide with 1 star for 2025–2026, second-lowest among the 11 local schools, despite an 8-point rise from the prior year. Its student-teacher ratio was 12.9:1 in 2024–2025, and 72% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism also fell, from 28% in 2023–2024 to 22% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 25% and state’s 24%. One notable SchoolDigger subgroup result is its effectiveness ranking for Hispanic students: 68th percentile and 3 stars in 2025–2026, compared with the school’s overall 21st percentile; the group’s ranking had been at the 4th percentile in 2023–2024.

610
Students ?
12.9
Student/teacher ratio ?
71.6%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
 336 Redding Rd
       Lexington, KY  40517

(859) 381-3500

District: Fayette County


Students who attend Lansdowne Elementary School usually attend:

Middle:    Southern Middle School
High:    Tates Creek High School
Racial breakdown:

White:
33.8%
African American:
31.3%
Hispanic:
20.0%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Rebounding — 8th percentile in 2021 → 21st in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is rebounding — up to 21st (2026) from a 8th-percentile low (2021)
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Kentucky average (33% vs 44% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (21st percentile)
!Writing scores 21 pts below the Kentucky average
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school33%
District avg49%
Kentucky avg44%
540th of 684
Kentucky public elementary schools ?
Bottom 21%▼ down 27 pts since 2016
From bottom 48% (2016) to bottom 21% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
29th of 39Elementary Schools in the Fayette County
65th of 158Fayette 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
202624.9540 of 68421.1%★☆☆☆☆
202516.3597 of 68512.8%★☆☆☆☆
202419.1577 of 68515.8%★☆☆☆☆
202319.1576 of 68716.2%★☆☆☆☆
202231.2475 of 68430.6%★★☆☆☆
202115.9475 of 5178.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201927.7571 of 70018.4%★☆☆☆☆
201820.5598 of 69113.5%★☆☆☆☆
201731.4530 of 69423.6%★☆☆☆☆
201649.6361 of 69047.7%★★☆☆☆
201552.5328 of 69853.0%★★★☆☆
201460.5265 of 70562.4%★★★☆☆
201374.2131 of 71981.8%★★★★☆
201267.9186 of 71373.9%★★★★☆
201168.5195 of 68871.7%★★★★☆
201075.0138 of 68379.8%★★★★☆
200977.0120 of 65881.8%★★★★☆
200879.595 of 65185.4%★★★★☆
200772.2153 of 63876.0%★★★★☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202645.276 of 15049.3%★★☆☆☆
202534.692 of 14235.2%★★☆☆☆
202432.991 of 14035.0%★★☆☆☆
202340.374 of 12942.6%★★☆☆☆
202241.171 of 11839.8%★★☆☆☆
201949.386 of 18553.5%★★★☆☆
201843.3102 of 18444.6%★★☆☆☆

Disabled

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
201944.5223 of 47453.0%★★★☆☆
201824.8361 of 44518.9%★☆☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202249.118 of 4055.0%★★★☆☆
201930.679 of 9617.7%★☆☆☆☆
201826.671 of 8112.3%★☆☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202621.4546 of 65716.9%★☆☆☆☆
202517.3558 of 64813.9%★☆☆☆☆
202423.1522 of 64418.9%★☆☆☆☆
202324.3512 of 63919.9%★☆☆☆☆
202228.9477 of 64125.6%★☆☆☆☆
201929.0548 of 67118.3%★☆☆☆☆
201821.6578 of 66312.8%★☆☆☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202658.053 of 16868.5%★★★☆☆
202413.9129 of 1354.4%☆☆☆☆☆
202364.630 of 12075.0%★★★★☆
202248.651 of 11455.3%★★★☆☆
201937.0107 of 15229.6%★★☆☆☆
201861.244 of 15371.2%★★★★☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202629.0507 of 67424.8%★☆☆☆☆
202519.0579 of 67213.8%★☆☆☆☆
202417.6588 of 66511.6%★☆☆☆☆
202326.1526 of 67021.5%★☆☆☆☆
202234.3445 of 66733.3%★★☆☆☆
202113.6258 of 2756.2%☆☆☆☆☆
201931.5509 of 66423.3%★☆☆☆☆
201817.4576 of 6318.7%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202627.7500 of 65123.2%★☆☆☆☆
202523.1534 of 65318.2%★☆☆☆☆
202413.4595 of 6528.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202319.4548 of 65216.0%★☆☆☆☆
202233.5450 of 65731.5%★★☆☆☆
202115.4309 of 3254.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201928.5542 of 67619.8%★☆☆☆☆
201822.3577 of 66513.2%★☆☆☆☆

Multi-racial

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
201950.727 of 5853.4%★★★☆☆
201826.152 of 5911.9%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
201924.6544 of 66117.7%★☆☆☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankKentucky percentileRating
202625.0515 of 65020.8%★☆☆☆☆
202522.9542 of 65917.8%★☆☆☆☆
202423.5535 of 65918.8%★☆☆☆☆
202320.5563 of 65814.4%★☆☆☆☆
202246.2333 of 65649.2%★★☆☆☆
202130.1262 of 33722.3%★☆☆☆☆
201929.6467 of 59221.1%★☆☆☆☆
201819.9530 of 59310.6%★☆☆☆☆
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)
Hispanic (2026)68th percentile+47 vs school
English Language Learner (2022)55th percentile+24 vs school
Multi-racial (2019)53rd percentile+35 vs school
Disabled (2019)53rd percentile+35 vs school
African American (2026)49th percentile+28 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)25th percentile+4 vs school
Male (2026)23rd percentile~ school
White (2026)21st percentile~ school
Special Education (2019)18th percentile~ school
Female (2026)17th percentile-4 vs school
By subject vs Kentucky (2025-2026) ?
Editing and Mechanics39%-9 vs state
Reading36%-14 vs state
Science35%-5 vs state
Mathematics34%-9 vs state
Social Studies26%-12 vs state
Writing14%-21 vs state

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Students who attend Lansdowne Elementary School usually go on to attend:

Middle : Southern Middle School
High : Tates Creek High School

Students at Lansdowne Elementary School are 34% White, 31% African American, 20% Hispanic, 9% Two or more races, 6% Asian.

In the 2024-25 school year, 610 students attended Lansdowne Elementary School.

Lansdowne Elementary School ranks in the bottom 21.1% of Kentucky elementary schools.

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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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