Summary:
ZIP code 40511 has two middle schools in Fayette County: Leestown Middle School and Winburn Middle School; both serve grades 6–8. Their 2025–2026 results show a clear difference between the schools, while the statewide comparison suggests that stronger scores than a nearby school do not necessarily mean matching state results. Most importantly, Leestown scored higher than Winburn in all ten subject-and-grade comparisons.
Leestown stands out as the higher-scoring school: its average across the ten results was 41%, compared with 30% at Winburn, a gap of 11 percentage points. The widest difference was in seventh-grade Reading, where Leestown scored 53% and Winburn 33%; the narrowest was eighth-grade Editing and Mechanics, at 36% and 30%. Leestown was above the state in some results—for example, seventh-grade Reading (53% versus 50%) and seventh-grade Science (33% versus 28%)—but below it in others. Winburn was below the state in all ten comparisons. Writing is a particular concern: eighth-grade proficiency was 42% at Leestown and 26% at Winburn, against 48% statewide.
Results changed in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Leestown’s ten-result average fell from 48% to 41%, while Winburn’s rose from 28% to 30%; the state average eased from 43% to 42%. SchoolDigger ranks Leestown 171st of 326 (48th percentile, 2 stars) and Winburn 276th (15th percentile, 1 star). Leestown’s SchoolDigger percentile declined from 64 in 2023–2024 to 48 in 2025–2026, while Winburn moved from 16 to 10 and then 15. For context, 2024–2025 enrollment was 1,084 at Leestown and 768 at Winburn, with student-teacher ratios of 14.4 and 13.0. The 2024–2025 free/reduced lunch eligible measures were 53% and 65%, respectively; these are school context, not an explanation of achievement.
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