Summary:
ZIP code 41095 in Gallatin County has four schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: a lower elementary, upper elementary, middle school and high school, with 1,426 students combined. Attendance is a relative bright spot: chronic absenteeism is lower than the state’s at all four schools, ranging from 13% to 21% compared with 24% statewide. Academically, however, most reported results trail state benchmarks: 23 of 25 comparisons in 2025–26 were below the state, with an average gap of 10 percentage points.
The strongest result is at Gallatin County Upper Elementary, where 3rd-grade math proficiency was 52%, 9 points above the state’s 43%. Gallatin County Middle School also topped the state in 8th-grade reading, 44% versus 40%. The largest shortfalls are at Upper Elementary: 5th-grade writing was 8% versus 35% statewide, a 27-point gap, and editing and mechanics was 23% versus 48%, a 25-point gap. Gallatin County High School 11th-grade writing was also 25 points below the state, at 22% versus 47%.
Changes vary by grade and subject: across the same 25 comparisons in both years, the average school-to-state gap widened by 2 points in 2025–26. Middle School 7th-grade math fell from 4 points above the state to 17 below, while Upper Elementary 3rd-grade math improved from 6 points below to 9 above. SchoolDigger ranks the district 141st of 158 in Kentucky, at the 11th percentile and 1 star; among schools, Middle School has the strongest latest ranking, at the 30th percentile and 2 stars, compared with Upper Elementary’s 23rd and High School’s 16th percentile, each with 1 star. Student-teacher ratios range from 15.6 at Gallatin County Lower Elementary to 18.4 at High School. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligibility ranged from 75% at High School to 79% at Lower Elementary, with the other two schools at 78%; these figures are context, not an explanation for outcomes. Lower Elementary has no test-score results in the supplied data, and the schools serve different grade spans.
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