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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40701


At a glance
13
Schools
5,166
Students
5
Districts
4
5-star schools
Top rankedCorbin High School5th of 262 Kentucky high schools
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Biggest riser
Oak Grove Elementary School up 112 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Lynn Camp Middle High School 11.8 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
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6 schools without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

Zip code 40701 has 12 schools—six elementary schools, one middle school, three high schools and two alternative schools—with reported test results spanning grades 3 through 11. Results vary substantially from school to school: in fifth-grade math, Corbin Elementary School scored 77%, while Lynn Camp Elementary School scored 21%, a 56-point gap; the state result was 43%. The most important takeaway is that achievement varies sharply among schools serving the same grades.

Corbin Elementary and Corbin Middle School stand out for consistently strong results: all eight reported elementary results and all ten middle-school results were above state, by 18–34 points. Corbin High School also led the reported high-school results, with all six scores 17–27 points above state; its 10th-grade reading score was 73%, compared with 49% statewide. At the other end, Lynn Camp Elementary was below state in 15 of 17 results, including fifth-grade reading at 29% versus 51% statewide. Lynn Camp Middle High School was below state in most reported results, including eighth-grade reading at 25% versus 40%.

Recent changes differ by school. Oak Grove Elementary’s SchoolDigger rank improved from 202nd of 685 in 2023–2024 to 41st of 684 in 2025–2026; its third-grade math rose from 49% to 75% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026. By contrast, Hunter Hills Elementary’s SchoolDigger rank moved from 106th to 269th, while its test results were mixed: third-grade math fell 25 points and fourth-grade math rose 13 points. Context measures do not neatly match results: in 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 56% at Corbin Elementary and 87% at Lynn Camp Elementary, while student-teacher ratios were 13.2 at Lynn Camp Elementary and 14.3 at Hunter Hills, where third-grade reading was 71%.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kentucky Department of Education.

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