Schools in Zip Code 41139

Zip code 41139 has one listed school, Russell-McDowell Intermediate School, an elementary school serving grades 3–5 with 442 students. With no other listed school, families cannot compare schools within the zip code; the available comparisons are with Kentucky statewide results. The most important finding is that in 2025–2026, the school’s average across its 10 reported subject-and-grade results was 48%, compared with 44% statewide, a 4-point advantage.

Russell-McDowell’s strongest results were grade 4 reading, at 65% proficient versus 50% statewide (15 points higher), and grade 5 editing and mechanics, at 61% versus 48% (13 points higher). Its lowest comparisons were both in grade 3: mathematics was 39% versus 43% statewide, and reading was 45% versus 49%, each 4 points lower. Overall, the school was above the state in 8 of 10 reported comparisons and below it in 2, with the strongest results in grades 4 and 5 and more concern in grade 3.

Results improved overall relative to the state, but not in every subject. The school’s average advantage grew from nearly even in 2024–2025 (44% versus 44%, a reported 0.1-point gap) to 4 points in 2025–2026; grade 5 writing rose 13 points and editing and mechanics rose 23, while grade 4 mathematics fell 9. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile was 57 in 2023–2024, 51 the next year, and 63 in 2025–2026; it gave the school 3 stars in each of the three years. The student-teacher ratio was 16.7 in 2024–2025, and 52% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 15% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 21% and the state’s 24%; the Russell Independent district received 4 stars from SchoolDigger.