Summary:
ZIP code 40152 has one listed school, Ben Johnson Elementary School, serving PK–5 in Breckinridge County and enrolling 232 students. With no other schools in the ZIP code to compare, the key picture is how results differ by grade and subject: Grade 3 reading and math were below Kentucky’s results, while several later-grade results were above them.
Ben Johnson Elementary School’s strongest comparison with the state in 2025–2026 was Grade 4 science, with 64% proficient compared with 40% statewide, a 24-point advantage. Its weakest was Grade 3 reading: 29% proficient, 20 points below the state’s 49%; Grade 3 math was also below state, at 24% versus 43%. By Grade 5, results were above state in math (55%, 12 points higher), reading (55%, 4 points higher), writing (48%, 13 points higher), social studies (48%, 10 points higher), and editing and mechanics (62%, 14 points higher). These varied results make the grade and subject comparisons more informative than a single overall label.
Reading improved notably over time, although Grade 3 was a slight exception: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Grade 4 reading rose from 36% to 61% and Grade 5 from 43% to 55%, while Grade 3 moved from 30% to 29%. Across Grades 3–5, the reading average rose from 36% to 48%, a 12-point increase; the math average increased more modestly, from 36% to 38%, and remained 5 points below the state average. SchoolDigger ranked the school 261 of 684 schools, at the 62nd percentile with 3 stars in 2025–2026, compared with 403 of 685, the 41st percentile and 2 stars the year before. In 2024–2025, its student-teacher ratio was 14:1 and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; these are context, not explanations of achievement.
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