Johnson County Eagle Academy

Johnson County Eagle Academy is an alternative school in Paintsville, Kentucky, serving 160 students in grades K–12. In 2023–24, its reported graduation rate was 98%, compared with 95% in Johnson County and 92% statewide. The main concern is that this high graduation rate sits alongside much lower grade-10 proficiency: in 2025–26, 11% of students were proficient in math and 21% in reading, well below both district and state results.

Among its reported 2024–25 subject results, science was least below the state, while social studies showed the largest gap: grade-11 science proficiency was 7%, versus 22% statewide and 27% in the district; social studies was also 7%, versus 38% statewide and 44% in the district. In grade 10, math was 12% and reading 21%, respectively 29 and 26 points below state results. Renaissance Learning Center has 174 students, compared with 160 at Eagle Academy, but its comparable grade-10 test results are suppressed, so the available data cannot show which school has stronger proficiency.

Grade-10 results have fallen further behind the state over time: the math gap grew from 16 points in 2022–23 to 29 points in 2025–26, while the reading gap grew from 13 points in 2023–24 to 28 points in 2025–26. Context differs sharply between the schools: in 2024–25, Eagle Academy’s student-teacher ratio was 52.9, compared with 9.4 at Renaissance Learning Center. Its reported free/reduced lunch eligible rate was 82% that year, versus 93% at Renaissance; the rate at Eagle Academy has varied, from 85% in 2022–23 to 78% in 2023–24 and 82% in 2024–25. SchoolDigger’s ratings are for districts, not individual schools: it rates Johnson County 41st of 158 districts, at the 74th percentile with 4 stars.