Summary:
Zip code 40076 has one listed elementary school, Heritage Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 387 students in Shelby County. There is no second local school to compare it with, so the clearest picture comes from its results versus Kentucky’s and its changes over time. Most importantly, Heritage’s latest test-score average was still above the state’s, but its advantage narrowed sharply from the prior year.
Heritage’s strongest latest-year result was fourth-grade math: 57% of students were proficient, compared with 43% statewide, a 14-point advantage. It also exceeded state results in seven of ten reported grade-and-subject comparisons, matched the state in one, and fell below it in two. The weakest comparisons were fourth-grade science, at 35% versus 40% statewide, and third-grade reading, at 45% versus 49%. Across all ten results, the school’s average was 48%, compared with 44% statewide, a 4-point lead; these subject differences give a more useful picture than labeling the only listed school a local top or bottom performer.
Results declined in every subject comparison from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and Heritage’s overall average advantage over the state shrank from 18 points to 4. The sharpest change was fifth-grade social studies, which fell from 67% to 44%, while the state remained at 38%; the three-grade math average also dropped by 18 points. SchoolDigger ranked Heritage at the 61st percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 84th percentile the year before, although those rankings measure something different from the state comparisons. Context for families: the student–teacher ratio was 16:1 and 42% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; chronic absenteeism was 11% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 17% and the state’s 24%.
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