Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40313

Zip code 40313 has one listed school, Clearfield Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 299 students in the Rowan County district. Its latest results were below Kentucky’s in most reported subject-and-grade comparisons, though writing was a clear exception. The largest shortfall was grade 3 Reading: 27% of students were proficient, compared with 49% statewide, a 22-point gap.

Grade 5 Writing stands out as the school’s strongest result, while grade 3 Reading and grade 5 Mathematics are the biggest areas of concern in comparison with the state. In Writing, 43% were proficient, 8 points above both the state and district rates of 35%; in grade 5 Mathematics, 27% were proficient, 16 points below the state’s 43%. SchoolDigger ranks the school 515th of 684 statewide, in the 25th percentile, and gives it 1 star for 2025–2026. Because this is the only school listed, there is no school-to-school comparison for the zip code.

Results changed unevenly across grades over the two years: grade 3 Reading fell 18 points and grade 4 Reading fell 12, while grade 5 Reading rose 15 points; grade 5 Writing and Social Studies also rose 12 and 14 points, respectively. SchoolDigger’s ranking has remained fairly steady, moving from the 24th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 26th in 2024–2025 and the 25th in 2025–2026. As context, 77% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student–teacher ratio was 14.3 that year; chronic absenteeism was 25% in 2025–2026, equal to the district and 1 point above the state.