Summary:
Zip code 40437 has one school, Hustonville Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 5 with 439 students in the Lincoln County district. Because there is no second school in the ZIP code, families cannot compare local schools against one another; the clearest picture comes from comparing Hustonville with district and state results. Most importantly, in 2025–2026 Hustonville’s proficiency was higher than the state’s in all 10 reported subject-and-grade comparisons, and higher than the district’s in all 10.
Hustonville is both the highest- and lowest-ranked school in this one-school ZIP-code group, but that is a default distinction rather than a meaningful local ranking. Its results were above the state in every reported comparison: the largest gap was 26 points in grade 4 math, at 69% versus 43%, and the smallest was 8 points in grade 4 reading, at 58% versus 50%. The school also exceeded the district in every comparison. SchoolDigger gives Hustonville four stars and ranks it 74th of 684 Kentucky elementary schools, at the 89th percentile, for 2025–2026.
Results improved overall, though not in every subject. Across the 10 test results, Hustonville averaged 61% in 2025–2026, up from 52% the prior year; the state average was 44% in both years, so the school’s average advantage widened from 8 points to 17 points. Grade 5 reading rose 17 points, grade 4 science rose 14, and grade 3 math rose 13, while grade 5 writing stayed at 59%—still 24 points above the state in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 124th in 2023–2024 to 207th in 2024–2025, then improved to 74th. Other context: the student-teacher ratio was 15.5 in 2024–2025, and 78% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 12%, compared with 25% in the district and 24% statewide.
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