Summary:
ZIP code 40076 has one listed school, Heritage Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 387 students in Shelby County. Its 2025–2026 results were above Kentucky’s in 7 of 10 reported subject-and-grade comparisons, and its average across those results was 48%, versus 44% statewide. The most important finding is that this overall advantage remains, but it narrowed sharply from the previous year.
Heritage’s strongest current results were in mathematics, where it exceeded the state in all three tested grades; the standout was grade 4, at 57% compared with 43%, a 14-point lead. Its clearest gaps were in grade 4 science, at 35% versus 40% statewide, and grade 3 reading, at 45% versus 49%. The school also exceeded district results in 9 of 10 comparisons, including by 16 points in grade 4 mathematics; science was the exception, with 35% at the school and 36% districtwide. This ZIP-code list has no other school for a school-to-school comparison.
Results fell from the prior year in 9 of 10 matched comparisons, even as grade 4 mathematics rose 7 points, from 50% to 57%. The average across all 10 results dropped from 61% in 2024–2025 to 48% in 2025–2026, while the school’s lead over the state narrowed from 18 points to 4. SchoolDigger’s rating moved from 4 stars and rank 111 of 685 in 2024–2025 to 3 stars and rank 270 of 684 in 2025–2026. For context, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 16 in 2024–2025, and 42% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 17% and the state’s 24%.
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