Summary:
ZIP code 41017 has two listed Kentucky high schools: Dixie Heights High School, serving grades 9–12, and Beechwood High School, serving grades 7–12. In 2025–2026, both schools scored above the state in all six shared high-school subject results. The clearest overall finding is that Beechwood led in five of those six subjects.
Beechwood’s strongest relative leads were in editing and mechanics, 63% versus 44%, and social studies, 60% versus 43%; its six-result average was 58%, compared with 48% at Dixie Heights. Dixie Heights’ exception was writing, where it scored 57% to Beechwood’s 56%. Science was the lowest shared result at both schools: 26% at Dixie Heights and 35% at Beechwood, still above the state’s 23%. SchoolDigger ranks Beechwood 11th of 262 schools statewide, at the 96th percentile with 5 stars; Dixie Heights ranks 54th, at the 79th percentile with 4 stars.
Results moved in different directions from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Dixie Heights improved 4 points each in math and science, while Beechwood’s math result fell 13 points, from 76% to 63%; its other shared results changed by 3 points or less. Other differences may matter when choosing: Dixie Heights has about 1,499 students and a 22.5 student-teacher ratio, compared with Beechwood’s 762 students and 18.9 ratio. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 41% at Dixie Heights and 6% at Beechwood; these are observations, not explanations for results. Beechwood had lower chronic absenteeism, 8% versus 20%, while Dixie Heights had a higher graduation rate, about 100% versus 98%.
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