Summary
Oak Grove Elementary School in Corbin, Kentucky, serves prekindergarten through grade 6 and enrolls 669 students in Whitley County, a district ranked 6th of 158 in Kentucky by SchoolDigger. Oak’s latest results show strong performance statewide, but a less clear lead locally. Most importantly, its 2025–2026 grade-average proficiency was 21 to 24 percentage points above state averages across the five reported subjects, while its math and reading averages remained below the district’s.
Oak’s strongest grade-level result is third-grade math: 75% proficient, compared with 73% in the district, 43% statewide, and a 62% average among nearby schools reporting that grade. Fourth-grade math is a clearer concern at 56%—9 points below the district and 3 below the nearby-school average—while sixth-grade math was 67%, below both the district’s 74% and the 80% average of the two nearby schools with results. Across grades, Oak was close to the nearby average in math and reading, but ahead in science, social studies, and editing and mechanics. Social studies was 62%, 24 points above the state but 2 below the district; editing and mechanics was 71%, 23 above the state and 2 above the district. Reading was 72%, compared with 74% in the district.
Results have improved over time: Oak’s math average rose from 48% in 2022–2023 to 65% in 2025–2026, and reading rose from 58% to 72%. SchoolDigger ranks Oak 41st of 684 Kentucky schools, at the 94th percentile with five stars; its overall percentile increased from 78 to 94 between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. Context includes an 18:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, higher than the 13.2–15.2 range at other nearby schools reporting ratios, and 76% of students free/reduced lunch eligible that year, compared with a 71% nearby-school average. SchoolDigger’s effectiveness ranking for Male Students rose from the 70th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 97th in 2025–2026, indicating a sharp gain in how well the school serves that group relative to the same group at other schools; its ranking for White Students rose from the 62nd to the 92nd percentile.
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