Summary:
ZIP code 40511 has three high schools serving different grade spans: STEAM Academy serves grades 9–12, Future Forward Education & Career Center serves grades 6–12, and The Stables serves grades 8–12; enrollment ranges from 33 to 453. Many results for the two smaller schools are suppressed, so the clearest current academic picture is for STEAM Academy: it has reportable 2025–26 results in all six subjects and is above the state in five.
STEAM Academy stands out academically in the available results, with proficiency 8 points above the state in Mathematics, 7 points in Reading, 6 in Science, 5 in Social Studies, and 12 in Editing and Mechanics; its Writing result is 1 point below. The strongest available contrast with The Stables is in 2024–25 Editing and Mechanics: 54% at STEAM versus 25% at The Stables, a 29-point gap. Attendance also differs sharply: 2025–26 chronic absenteeism was 15% at STEAM and 58% at The Stables, a 44-point difference; The Stables’ rate was 33 points above the Fayette County rate.
STEAM Academy remained above the state in five subjects in 2025–26, but its six-subject average declined from 48% in 2024–25 to 46%, and its average lead over the state narrowed by 3 points. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking for STEAM also fell from 91 in 2023–24 to 74 in 2025–26; The Stables’ listed percentile ranking rose from 1 in 2015–16 to 45 in 2023–24. School context differs too: in 2024–25, student-teacher ratios were 20.9 at STEAM, 7.4 at Future Forward, and 7.8 at The Stables; free/reduced lunch eligible shares that year were 39%, 14%, and 61%, respectively. These are useful differences to consider, but they do not explain achievement.
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