Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40506

Zip code 40506 has one listed school, Opportunity Middle College, a high school serving grades 11–12 with 102 students in the Fayette County district. Its 2025–2026 11th-grade results show a varied subject profile: it outperformed the state in three of the four reported subjects, while science was below both state and district results. The clearest strength is writing, and science is the main area of concern.

Among the school’s 2025–2026 results, writing stands out most: 70% of students were proficient, 23 percentage points above the state’s 47% and 22 points above the district’s 48%. Science was the weakest relative result, at 19% proficient—4 points below the state’s 23% and 12 points below the district’s 31%. The other results were also above the state: social studies was 51%, compared with 37% statewide, and editing and mechanics was 56%, compared with 40%. These are subject-level strengths and weaknesses at the only school in the list, rather than a comparison between schools.

Results over time show improvement in some subjects, but not across the board. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, writing rose 1 point, editing and mechanics rose 11 points, and social studies fell 4 points; across those three subjects, the school’s average advantage over the state widened from 15 to 18 percentage points. SchoolDigger ranked the school 45th of 262 schools, at the 83rd percentile with 4 stars, in 2025–2026; it had ranked 23rd of 254, at the 91st percentile with 5 stars, the year before, and 131st of 290, at the 55th percentile with 3 stars, in 2023–2024. As context, the student-teacher ratio was 23.1 in 2024–2025, when 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 25%, matching the district and exceeding the state’s 24% by 2 percentage points. Because the list contains just one school, it cannot show how schools in the ZIP code compare with one another.