Summary:
ZIP code 40045 has one school, Milton Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through sixth grade and enrolling 232 students, so there are no other local schools to compare it with. In the nine published 2025–2026 grade-and-subject results, Milton was below Kentucky’s matching result every time: its mixed-grade, mixed-subject average was 26%, compared with 44% statewide, a gap of 18 percentage points.
Milton’s closest results to state levels were in sixth-grade math and third-grade reading: 32% versus 42% in math, 10 points behind, and 38% versus 49% in reading, 11 points behind. Its largest shortfalls were in fifth-grade math, at 14% versus 43% statewide, a 29-point gap, and fifth-grade social studies, at 14% versus 38%, a 24-point gap. Its highest individual result was 40% in sixth-grade reading, while its lowest scores were 14% in both fifth-grade math and social studies. These results show differences across grades and subjects, rather than a single consistent level of performance.
Recent matched results show small gains in some areas but little change in the state gaps: fifth-grade math remained 14% while the state stayed at 43%; fourth-grade reading rose from 26% to 27% while the state held at 50%; and fourth-grade science rose from 16% to 19% as the state increased from 37% to 40%. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking improved from the 2nd percentile (671st of 685 schools) in 2024–2025 to the 9th percentile (621st of 684) in 2025–2026, but the school remains near the bottom of that ranking. Attendance compares more favorably: chronic absenteeism was 17% in 2025–2026, about 7 points below both the Trimble County rate and the state rate. The student-teacher ratio was 18.4 in 2024–2025, and 54% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. With only one school listed, these figures cannot support local school-to-school comparisons.
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