Summary:
Zip code 40006 has two schools in the Trimble County district serving preschool through grade 12: Bedford Elementary School (421 students) and Trimble County Junior/Senior High School (541 students). In 2025–2026, across 18 reported grade-and-subject results, school proficiency averaged 26%, compared with 44% statewide, an 18-point gap; this is a descriptive average across different grades and subjects. The most important overall finding is that reported results were below state benchmarks, though the size of the gap varied widely.
Bedford had the closest state result: 5th-grade writing was 32% proficient versus 35% statewide, just 3 points below. Its largest shortfall was 4th-grade reading, at 18% versus 50%, a 32-point gap. The closest results at the high school were 8th-grade editing and mechanics (34% versus 42%, an 8-point gap) and 8th-grade social studies (21% versus 39%, an 18-point gap). Because the schools serve different tested grades, they cannot be compared head-to-head by grade; both schools’ 2025–2026 science results are suppressed and unknown.
Results improved overall across 15 grade-and-subject comparisons available in both years: the average gap narrowed from 19 points to 17. That change came from Bedford, where the average gap improved by 7 points, while the high school’s widened by 1 point; at the high school, 10th-grade reading fell 15 points, from 40% to 25%. SchoolDigger ranked Bedford 610th of 684 (11th percentile) and the high school 229th of 262 (13th percentile) in 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, Bedford’s student-teacher ratio was 22.4 and 58% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; the high school’s ratio was 18.2 and 51% were free/reduced lunch eligible. These figures are context, not explanations for test results.
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