Summary:
Zip code 40517 has one high school, Tates Creek High School, serving grades 9–12 with 1,723 students in Fayette County. Its most pressing concern is chronic absenteeism: 46% of students were chronically absent in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide and 25% in the district—about 22 and 20 percentage points higher, respectively.
Because it is the only school in this group, there is no meaningful comparison of top and bottom schools; Tates Creek High School is both by default. Its strongest 2025–2026 results relative to Kentucky were Social Studies, at 44% proficient versus 37% statewide, and Science, at 27% versus 23%. Reading was its clearest academic weakness: 39% were proficient, 10 points below the state’s 49%; Mathematics was 6 points below, Writing 5 below, and Editing and Mechanics 2 below. Across the six subjects, its average was 37%, versus 39% statewide and 44% in Fayette County. Graduation was slightly higher than both comparisons—94.7% versus 94.1% statewide and 93.9% in the district—while dropout was higher at 2%, versus 1% for both.
Scores improved overall but not in every subject: the six-subject average rose from 34% in 2024–2025 to 37% in 2025–2026, narrowing the gap with the state from 5 points to 2. Social Studies gained 12 points and Science 7, while Reading fell 5. SchoolDigger’s ranking also improved most recently, moving from the 36th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 31st in 2024–2025 and the 47th in 2025–2026; the school remained at 2 stars in all three years. For context, the student–teacher ratio was 17.5:1, and 57% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these figures do not explain the school’s results.
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