Tompkinsville Elementary

Tompkinsville Elementary in Tompkinsville, Kentucky, serves 437 students in PK–5 in Monroe County. Its strongest recent result is 5th-grade Social Studies: 84% of students were proficient in 2025–2026, 46 percentage points above the state and 23 points above the district.

Social Studies is also the school’s clearest advantage over nearby schools: its 84% result was higher than every nearby school with a reported score, where results ranged from 28% to 61%. Math is strong, too: Tompkinsville scored 58% in both grades 3 and 4, 15 points above the state in each grade, and ranked second among nearby schools in both grades. Reading results were above state rates by 5 points in grade 3 and 17 in grade 4, but slightly below the district in both grades: 54% versus 56% in grade 3 and 67% versus 68% in grade 4. Gamaliel Elementary scored higher than Tompkinsville in both reported Reading grades.

Results over time are mixed: grade 5 Social Studies rose 19 points, from 65% in 2022–2023 to 84% in 2025–2026, while grade 4 Reading fell 9 points, from 76% to 67%, narrowing its advantage over the state from 28 points to 17. SchoolDigger ranks Tompkinsville 91st of 684 statewide, at the 87th percentile with 4 stars; its percentile fell 10 points from the previous year, though it remains second among the six nearby schools. SchoolDigger’s statewide measure of how well the school serves male students fell from the 96th to the 78th percentile, and its measure for white students fell from the 94th to the 76th. In 2024–2025, 75% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, and the student-teacher ratio was 13.4. Several 2025–2026 subject scores are suppressed, so those subjects cannot be assessed for that year.