Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40109

Zip code 40109 has one school, Brooks Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 in Bullitt County, with 444 students. The available 2025–2026 proficiency results cover grades 3–5. Since there is only one school in the list, families can compare its results with district and Kentucky figures, but not with other schools in the ZIP code. The most important finding is that Brooks’s reported proficiency was below the state average in every listed subject and grade.

Reading is Brooks’s strongest subject relative to the state, while math and writing show larger gaps. Across the listed grades, reading proficiency averaged 37% at Brooks versus 50% statewide, a 13-point difference; the grade 5 reading result was its closest to the state, at 43% compared with 51%. The available math results averaged 21% versus 43% statewide, a 23-point gap. Brooks’s lowest listed result was grade 5 writing: 11% proficient, compared with 35% statewide, a 24-point gap. These results identify relative strengths and weaker areas at the only school in the ZIP code, rather than a top or bottom school among local options.

Brooks’s results and SchoolDigger standing show some recent improvement, but not a consistent upward trend. Across six grade-and-subject comparisons available in both years, Brooks’s scores rose by an average of 7 points, while state results rose by 1 point; the average gap narrowed by 6 points. Grade 5 reading rose 22 points, but grade 5 social studies fell 4 points. SchoolDigger ranked Brooks 613th of 684 Kentucky elementary schools in 2025–2026, at the 10th percentile with 1 star, improving from 635th of 685 and the 7th percentile with 0 stars the prior year. The school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 13.8, and 71% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe context, not the cause of its results.