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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40047


At a glance
8
Schools
5,130
Students
Top rankedEastside Middle School74th of 326 Kentucky middle schools
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Biggest riser
MT. Washington Elementary up 159 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Crossroads Elementary 16.1 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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1★
1 school without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

ZIP code 40047 has eight schools in elementary, middle and high school, serving grades from elementary through high school. The clearest pattern is that local elementary results vary widely, while both middle schools average above their matched state results.

MT. Washington Elementary leads the elementary schools, averaging 51% across its reported results; Pleasant Grove is close at 50%. At the other end, Crossroads averages 35%, 16 points below MT. Washington, and scores below the state in all 10 comparisons. Among middle schools, Eastside averages 51%, compared with 46% at MT. Washington Middle; both are above their matched state average, by 9 and 3 points, respectively. Bullitt East High averages 35%, about 4 points below its matched state average. Elementary schools are strongest overall in math and weakest in social studies: the group averages 3 points above state in math and 5 below in social studies.

Recent results show improvement at some schools, but not all. MT. Washington Elementary gained 9 points in its comparable average from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Crossroads gained 4 but remained lowest; Old Mill fell 2 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile rankings rose from 40 to 70 for MT. Washington Elementary and from 25 to 62 for MT. Washington Middle, while Old Mill fell from 76 to 47. For 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares ranged from 25% at Pleasant Grove and MT. Washington Elementary to 62% at Crossroads; student-teacher ratios do not follow the same performance order. Spring Meadows’s 2025–2026 test results are suppressed, so they cannot be compared.

Ranking:
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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kentucky Department of Education.

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