Summary:
Zip code 40447 has two schools classified as high schools: Jackson County High School, serving grades 9–12, and Jackson County Schools Learning Center, serving grades 7–12. The high school serves 536 students and posts results above state levels in most tested subjects, but its 47% chronic absenteeism is a serious concern compared with 24% statewide. The key takeaway is a mixed picture: stronger-than-state results in five of six subjects alongside notably high absenteeism.
Jackson County High School stands out for science and social studies, while math is its clearest relative weakness. In 2025–2026, science proficiency was 36% versus 23% statewide, a 13-point advantage, and social studies was 49% versus 37%, a 12-point advantage. Reading was 57% versus 49%; writing, 52% versus 47%; and editing and mechanics, 44% versus 40%. Math was the exception at 37% versus 40%. The Learning Center’s school-level test scores are suppressed, so these results cannot establish which school performs better.
Results at Jackson County High School improved relative to the state over the two years: its average advantage across the six subjects widened from about 4 points in 2024–2025 to about 7 points in 2025–2026. Science rose 14 points at the school, while math fell 5; social studies gained 4 and editing and mechanics gained 5. SchoolDigger gives the high school a 4-star rating and ranks it in the 74th percentile statewide for 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, its student-teacher ratio was 15 and 66% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 95%, about 1 point above the state’s 94%. The Learning Center had 7 students and a 7.7 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, but its different grade span and unavailable test results prevent a like-for-like performance comparison.
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