Summary:
ZIP code 40356 includes 11 schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: six elementary schools, two middle schools, and three high schools. Together they enroll 7,728 students; nine schools have usable 2025–2026 test results, while Ashgrove Academy has seven students and suppressed scores, and Jessamine Early Learning Village has no test scores in the data. Across 82 grade-and-subject comparisons, school results averaged about 1 percentage point above the state. The clearest standout is West Jessamine Middle School, which exceeded state results in all 10 reported comparisons.
East Jessamine Middle School was above the state in only four of 10 comparisons; the gap between the middle schools reached 16 points in eighth-grade math and 19 points in editing and mechanics. Elementary leaders vary by grade and subject: Rosenwald Dunbar led fourth-grade math with 61%, while Brookside led fifth-grade reading with 63%. Red Oak led three fifth-grade subjects, including math at 57%; results also ranged from 38% to 61% in fourth-grade math and from 30% to 51% in fifth-grade social studies. At high school, West Jessamine led East Jessamine in four of six subjects, while East led reading and writing.
Recent test-score changes are mixed: across matched results, the schools’ average position relative to the state slipped by about 1 point from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Hattie C. Warner had the largest summed decline, down 55 points across 10 comparisons; SchoolDigger rankings tell a different part of the story, with Brookside rising from the 22nd to the 43rd percentile and West Jessamine Middle from the 66th to the 77th. Context measures do not sort schools neatly by results: the middle schools had similar student-teacher ratios, 16.8 and 16.1, but markedly different scores. Their free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 47% at West and 62% at East in 2024–2025; these figures describe the schools, not why their results differ.
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