Summary:
ZIP code 40291 has one high school, Fern Creek High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 1,525 students. In 2025–2026, its average proficiency across six subjects was 22%, compared with 29% for Jefferson County and 39% statewide. Fern Creek was below the state in every subject, by 13 to 20 percentage points, and below the district by 5 to 9 points. The key takeaway is that its achievement shortfall is broad across all six tested subjects, not limited to one area.
There are no other listed high schools in the ZIP code to rank against Fern Creek, but its results vary by subject. Reading was its strongest area at 31% proficient, while science was lowest at 10%; science was also closest to the state rate, 13 points behind, while math and writing were each 20 points behind. Beyond test results, graduation was 92% in 2025–2026—2 points below the state and 3 points above the district—while chronic absenteeism was 47%, 24 points above the state and 16 above the district.
Results weakened overall between the two reported years: Fern Creek’s six-subject average fell from 26% to 22%, and its average gap with the state widened by 5 points. Writing had the sharpest drop, declining from 38% in 2024–2025 to 27% in 2025–2026, while the state rate rose from 45% to 47%; Fern Creek went from 3 points above the district in writing to 5 points below. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Fern Creek fell from 22nd in 2023–2024 to 11th in 2025–2026; it also lists the school in the district’s 15th percentile with a 1-star rating. As context, the school’s student-teacher ratio was 15.1 in 2024–2025, and 59% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. These are observations about a single school, so the data cannot show how school characteristics relate to achievement across schools.
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