Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 40245

Middle schools in ZIP code 40245 include one school, Echo Trail Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 697 students. Its 2025–2026 results show a mix of strengths and weaker areas compared with Kentucky, rather than a school-to-school choice within the ZIP code. The clearest strength is mathematics: Echo Trail’s average proficiency across grades 6–8 was 46%, six points above the state average of 40%.

Echo Trail stands out most positively in math and most negatively in grade 8 writing. Math proficiency was above the state in every tested grade: 47% versus 42% in grade 6, 44% versus 39% in grade 7, and 47% versus 39% in grade 8. Writing proficiency was 39%, nine points below the state’s 48%; grade 8 reading was also below state results, at 38% versus 40%. Reading was stronger in grades 6 and 7, exceeding the state by one and three points, respectively. Because this is the only school listed, there is no school-to-school top or bottom ranking.

Across five subject-and-grade results available in both years, Echo Trail’s average lead over Kentucky narrowed from five points to three: its average moved from 48% to 46%, while the state average rounded to 43% in both years. Grade 7 science fell nine points at the school, from 38% to 29%, while the state result fell one point; grades 6–7 reading averaged 54% in both years as the state average rose from 50% to 52%. SchoolDigger ranks Echo Trail 143rd of 326 schools, at the 56th percentile, with three stars. Other context: its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 15.1, and 35% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 22% at the school, compared with 32% in Jefferson County and 24% statewide; the reported dropout rate was 0%, versus 2% in the district and 1% statewide.