Summary:
ZIP code 41042 has nine schools: five elementary, two middle and two high schools, serving students across elementary through high school grades. Across the available 2025–26 results, area averages were below the matched Kentucky state average in every subject, with the largest gap in editing and mechanics at 9 points. The clearest overall finding is that performance varies sharply between schools: Erpenbeck Elementary stands far above the other listed elementary schools.
Erpenbeck averaged 64% across its reported results, 20 points above the matched state average; the other elementary schools averaged 31% to 42%. It led the elementary schools in all 10 comparisons, including third-grade math at 68%, against a low of 18% at Hillard Collins Elementary. At the middle-school level, Ockerman Middle averaged 46%, compared with 29% at Rector A. Jones Middle—an 18-point difference. Ockerman also led Jones in every reported comparison, including eighth-grade writing, 61% to 20%.
Recent changes are mixed: across 76 results with year-to-year data, school scores fell by 16 points in total, while matching state scores fell by 3, a very small widening of the average gap. Ockerman Middle gained 67 points across its results, while A. M. Yealey Elementary fell by 30. SchoolDigger ranks Erpenbeck 55th of 684 elementary schools, at the 92nd percentile with five stars; Jones and Ockerman Elementary are at the 13th and 17th percentiles. As context, in 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 42% at Ockerman Middle and 64% at Jones, while their student-teacher ratios were 14.6 and 12.6, respectively.
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