Summary:
Zip code 40057 has one listed elementary school, Eastern Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 189 students in Henry County. Because it is the only school in the list, families cannot compare results across local schools. The most important finding is the sharp grade-level contrast: grade 4 results were well above Kentucky in math and reading, while grade 5 results were below the state in every reported subject.
Grade 4 is the school’s strongest point: reading proficiency was 79%, 29 percentage points above Kentucky’s 50%, and math was 64%, 21 points above the state’s 43%. Grade 5 was weakest in social studies at 17%; math and reading were each 26%. Those grade 5 results were 21 points below the state in social studies, 17 below in math, and 25 below in reading. Across all nine reported subject-and-grade results, Eastern averaged 38%, compared with 44% statewide and 29% in the district—6 points below the state but 10 above the district. This combined average hides the substantial differences by grade.
Results shifted downward overall from 2024–2025, though grade 4 improved: math rose 27 points, from 37% to 64%, and reading rose 40 points, from 39% to 79%. The other seven of the nine comparable results declined, including grade 3 math, down 38 points, and grade 5 reading, down 25. Across the nine comparisons, Eastern’s average gap versus the state changed from 3 points above in 2024–2025 to 6 points below in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile rank also fell, from 51 in 2024–2025 to 33 in 2025–2026. As context, 57% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 13; chronic absenteeism was 16% in 2025–2026, compared with 18% in the district and 24% statewide.
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