Summary:
Zip code 40940 has one listed school, Frakes School Center, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, with 117 students in 2024–2025. With no other listed schools to compare, the clearest picture comes from comparing Frakes’s reported results with the same-grade figures for Bell County and Kentucky. The most consistent bright spot in the available test results is reading: Frakes scored above the state in each reported reading comparison.
Frakes School Center stands out positively in reading against Kentucky, though not in every comparison with the district. In 2025–2026, grade 6 reading proficiency was 69%, 15 points above Kentucky and 4 points above Bell County; grade 7 was 60%, 10 points above the state but 9 points below the district. The weaker results were in grade 6 mathematics, at 38%—4 points below Kentucky and 13 below the district—and grade 5 writing in 2024–2025, at 27%, 11 points below the state and 17 below the district. Grade 5 mathematics in 2024–2025 was a more positive result: 47%, above Kentucky by 4 points and the district by 3.
SchoolDigger’s ranking history improved: the school moved from rank 490 of 684 and the 28th percentile in 2021–2022 to rank 293 of 685 and the 57th percentile in 2024–2025, rising 29 percentile points and improving 197 places; its rating went from one star to three. This ranking trend is encouraging, but the available test scores do not establish whether proficiency is rising over time. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 19% at Frakes, compared with 30% in Bell County and 24% statewide. For context, the school had a 13.3:1 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025, and 74% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year. Some school-level test results are suppressed, and this one-school list cannot show differences among local schools.
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