Summary:
Zip code 40357 has one listed school, North Middletown Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 5 with 128 students in the Bourbon County area. The school’s 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism rate was 27%, compared with 25% in the district and 24% statewide. The most important finding is that all four of the school’s reported 2025–2026 test results were below state rates, by 17 to 32 percentage points.
There is no local school-to-school leader or trailer because this is the only listed school; its results stand out in comparison with state rates. In 2025–2026, fourth-grade math was the closest result to the state rate, at 26% proficient versus 43%, a 17-point gap. Fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics was farthest below, at 16% versus 48%, a 32-point gap. Earlier results included notable strengths: in 2024–2025, fifth-grade writing reached 58% versus 38% statewide, and fourth-grade science reached 53% versus 37%.
Results fell sharply in the two subjects with comparable grade-level results across both years: fourth-grade math dropped from 41% to 26%, while fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics fell from 50% to 16%. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile ranking also declined, from 60th in 2024–2025 to 2nd in 2025–2026, and its rating changed from three stars to zero. The school’s student–teacher ratio was 13.6 in 2024–2025, and 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year; these figures provide context, not a basis for comparing the school with local peers. The latest absenteeism rate was about 2 points above the district rate and 3 points above the state rate.
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