Summary:
Zip code 40175 has one listed elementary school, Vine Grove Elementary School, serving grades 1–5 with 493 students in Hardin County. Its test results cover grades 3–5. In 2025–2026, the school was above Kentucky’s same-grade results in all 10 reported subject-grade comparisons, making broad above-state performance the clearest takeaway for families.
There is no second school in the list to compare as a top or bottom performer; Vine Grove Elementary School exceeded the state by 2 to 18 percentage points across the reported results. The largest advantages were in fifth-grade editing and mechanics (66% proficient versus 48%, an 18-point lead), social studies (53% versus 38%, 15 points), and writing (49% versus 35%, 14 points). Its smallest lead was in fourth-grade reading: 52% versus 50%, or 2 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 170th of 684 statewide, at the 75th percentile, and gave it four stars in 2025–2026.
Results were still above the state, but most declined from the prior year, and the overall lead narrowed. The average across the 10 reported results fell from 59% in 2024–2025 to 54% in 2025–2026, while the state average edged up from 44% to 44%; the school’s average lead narrowed from 15 points to 10. Fourth-grade science was a notable exception, rising from 43% to 50% as the state increased from 37% to 40%, widening the school’s lead from 6 to 10 points. Editing and mechanics fell from 88% to 66%. SchoolDigger’s percentile also dipped from 82 in 2024–2025, after 77 in 2023–2024, to 75 in 2025–2026. Other context: the 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 15.4, and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 12%, below the district’s 19% and the state’s 24%.
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