Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40115

Zip code 40115 has one listed school, Custer Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 in Breckinridge County. With no other listed schools, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the most useful comparisons are with state and district results. In 2025–2026, Custer’s seven reported subject-and-grade scores averaged 34%, compared with 45% for Kentucky and 47% for the district. The most important finding is that every reported Custer score was below the state result, with the largest gap in grade-3 Reading: 23% at Custer versus 49% statewide, a 26-point shortfall.

Custer’s closest result to the state was grade-5 Editing and Mechanics, at 43%—5 points below Kentucky’s 48% and 6 below the district’s 49%. Grade-5 Reading was also relatively close, at 43% compared with 51% statewide, an 8-point gap. At the other end, grade-3 Reading was the weakest relative result, 26 points below the state; grade-4 Science was 30%, 10 points below the state and 24 below the district. No reported score exceeded the state result. These comparisons show that the gaps vary by subject, with Science notably farther behind the district than Custer’s closest-to-state result.

Results over time show gains in Writing and Editing and Mechanics, but declines in Reading. Grade-5 Writing rose from 12% to 26% while the state result fell from 38% to 35%; Editing and Mechanics improved from 35% to 43%. In contrast, grade-3 Reading fell from 31% to 23%, widening its gap with the state from 16 to 26 points. Across five results available in both years, Custer’s average gap with the state narrowed from 14 points to 12. SchoolDigger ranks Custer 544th of 684 schools, at the 20th percentile and one star, compared with 418th of 685 and the 39th percentile in 2023–2024. School context includes 178 students, a 13.6:1 student-teacher ratio, and 71% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures describe the school but do not explain its test results. Because only one school is listed, the data cannot show how Custer compares with nearby school peers.