Summary:
ZIP code 40037 has one elementary school, West Marion Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolling 400 students. With no other listed schools, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the most important finding is that West Marion scored above the state in all 10 reported subject-and-grade results in 2025–2026.
West Marion is both the top and bottom school in the ZIP code by default, but its results vary by subject and grade. Its strongest state-relative result was grade 5 writing: 62% met proficiency, compared with 35% statewide, a 27-point advantage. Grade 4 was also strong, with math at 67% versus 43% statewide (24 points higher) and reading at 68% versus 50% (18 points higher). The closest result to the state was grade 3 reading, at 50% versus 49%. Across all 10 results, the school’s simple average was 59%, compared with 44% statewide.
Results have remained above state levels, but the overall advantage narrowed: the average school–state gap went from 18 points in 2024–2025 to 15 points in 2025–2026. The school’s average fell from 62% to 59%; changes varied by grade, with grade 5 reading falling 12 points, grade 3 math falling 11, and grade 4 science rising 10. SchoolDigger gives West Marion four stars and ranks it 118th of 684 Kentucky elementary schools, in the 83rd percentile, for 2025–2026; it ranked 81st of 685 the prior year. Other context: in 2024–2025, 52.5% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible and the student-teacher ratio was 16. Chronic absenteeism was 18.8% in 2025–2026, compared with 19.1% in the district and 23.5% statewide.
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