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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 40988


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1
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152
Students
Top rankedRight Fork School Center402nd of 684 Kentucky elementary schools
Summary:

ZIP code 40988 has one listed school, Right Fork School Center, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 in Bell County, with 152 students. Its 2025–26 results vary across subjects and grades: reported proficiency ranges from 28% in fifth-grade writing to 70% in sixth-grade reading. The key takeaway is that results are uneven across grades and subjects, rather than consistently above or below the state.

Because it is the only listed school in the ZIP code, there are no local schools to rank against one another. Compared with the state, Right Fork stands out most in sixth-grade reading and eighth-grade social studies, each 16 percentage points higher: 70% versus 54% in reading and 55% versus 39% in social studies. Those results also slightly exceed district figures of 65% and 54%, respectively. The weakest relative result is third-grade reading, at 38% versus 49% statewide, or 11 points lower. Fifth-grade writing is the school’s lowest reported score: 28%, 7 points below the state’s 35%.

Recent changes are mixed, with a sharp drop in third-grade reading but gains in sixth-grade reading. Third-grade reading fell 17 points, from 55% in 2024–25 to 38% in 2025–26, while the state result rose from 47% to 49%; the school’s position shifted from 8 points above the state to 11 points below. Sixth-grade reading rose from 67% to 70%, while eighth-grade social studies stayed at 55%. SchoolDigger ranks the school 402nd of 684 statewide, at the 41st percentile, with 2 stars; its previous entry was 387th of 685, at the 44th percentile. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 11, and 92% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–25. With only one listed school, these figures cannot be compared with local school peers.

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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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