Schools in Zip Code 41074

ZIP code 41074 has two schools in the Dayton Independent district: Lincoln Elementary School, serving PK–6 with 453 students, and Dayton High School, serving grades 7–12 with 358 students. The schools’ 2025–2026 proficiency results are mostly below Kentucky’s results for the same grades and subjects: 22 of 24 reported results fell short, and the two above-state results were at Lincoln. Across the reported results, proficiency averaged 33% compared with 45% statewide, a 12-percentage-point shortfall—the clearest overall concern for families.

Lincoln Elementary has the strongest individual results against the state: grade 5 writing was 41% proficient, 6 points above the state’s 35%, and grade 3 math was 47%, 4 points above the state. Its average across reported tests was 40% versus 49% statewide, a 9-point gap. Dayton High averaged 28% versus 41% statewide, a 14-point gap; grade 10 reading was its closest result, 41% versus 49%, while grade 11 writing was its largest shortfall, 22% versus 47% (25 points). Grade 7 science was also low at 13% versus 28%. Since the schools serve different grades, these results do not show which school performs better on the same tests.

Recent trends are more concerning at Dayton High: across results available in both years, its gap with the state widened by 88 points across 13 results, or about 7 points per result on average; Lincoln’s widened by 10 points across 10 results, or 1 point per result. There were exceptions: Dayton High grade 8 social studies rose from 15% to 30%, and Lincoln grade 4 reading rose from 31% to 48%. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking fell from 43 to 18 at Dayton High and from 40 to 28 at Lincoln between 2023–2024 and 2025–2026. Lincoln’s chronic absenteeism was 16% in 2025–2026, 8 points below the state; Dayton High’s was 24%, close to the state. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 85% at Lincoln and 86% at Dayton High; student–teacher ratios were 13.7 and 12.7, respectively.