Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 40508

Elementary schools in Lexington’s 40508 ZIP code include four schools serving either PK–5 or K–5, with enrollment from 158 to 567 and 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible figures from 29% to 86%. Their 2025–2026 results show a wide range: for example, third-grade math scores run from 5% to 67%, and third-grade reading from 16% to 73%. The most important finding is that Maxwell Spanish Immersion Elementary School is the clear academic standout, scoring above the state in all ten of its reported grade-and-subject results.

Maxwell averaged 69% across those results, compared with 44% for the corresponding state figures, and led each reported school comparison. Its 79% in fifth-grade editing and mechanics was 31 percentage points above the state’s 48%; its 64% in fifth-grade writing was 29 points above the state’s 35%. The differences among schools are also substantial: third-grade math spans 62 points, from Maxwell’s 67% to Booker T Washington Elementary School’s 5%. Booker has the lowest reported result in several comparisons and ranks 645th of 684 schools, in SchoolDigger’s 6th percentile with zero stars. William Wells Brown Elementary also has several low results, including 12% in fifth-grade social studies. George Washington Carver STEM Academy is more mixed: it is above state levels in third-grade math and its reported reading grades, but below in fourth-grade science and fifth-grade math.

Recent changes point in different directions. Carver’s nine comparable scores rose by an average of 12 points, while Brown’s seven fell by an average of 20 points; Brown’s fifth-grade social studies score dropped from 50% to 12%, and its editing-and-mechanics score from 57% to 20%. SchoolDigger rankings reflect the contrast: Carver moved from the 23rd percentile in 2024–2025 to the 54th, while Brown fell from the 42nd to the 10th; Maxwell is rated five stars and rose from the 94th to the 97th percentile between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 29% at Maxwell, 82% at Booker, 86% at Brown, and 68% at Carver; these are context, not an explanation for results. Chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026 was 8% at Maxwell and 14% at Carver, compared with 26% at Booker and 32% at Brown. These are descriptive comparisons, not evidence that one factor caused another.