Summary:
ZIP code 40515 has two elementary schools in Fayette County: Veterans Park Elementary, serving kindergarten through grade 5, and Squires Elementary, serving prekindergarten through grade 5. Their latest KSA results cover the same tested grades, making it possible to compare their performance directly. The clearest overall finding is that the schools have markedly different academic results, with Veterans Park ahead in nine of 10 subject-and-grade comparisons.
Veterans Park is the area’s standout: its simple average across the 10 results was 61%, compared with 40% at Squires and 44% statewide. Veterans Park led by 50 percentage points in grade 5 social studies (63% versus 13%), and by 34 points in grade 5 editing and mechanics and 32 points in writing. It was above the state result in all 10 measures. Squires’ strongest exception was grade 3, where it scored 60% in mathematics and 59% in reading—17 and 10 points above the state, respectively—and edged Veterans Park by 1 point in math. Its grade 5 results were much weaker: reading was 39%, writing 23%, social studies 13%, and editing and mechanics 27%.
Recent results moved downward, especially at Squires: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, the 10-result average fell by 2 points at Veterans Park and 8 points at Squires, while Kentucky’s comparable average edged up by less than 1 point. Squires’ grade 3 improvements—6 points in math and 9 in reading—contrast with its 35-point drop in grade 4 math. SchoolDigger’s percentile for Veterans Park was 88 in 2025–2026, compared with 42 for Squires. Context also differs: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 32% at Veterans Park and 56% at Squires; student-teacher ratios were 15.4 and 13.1, respectively. These are observations about the schools, not explanations for their test results.
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