Summary:
Zip code 41144 has two Greysbranch Elementary School (prekindergarten–grade 5) and Greenup County High School (grades 9–12), serving students from early elementary through high school in Greenup County. Their latest reported results show different strengths, but math is the clearest shared concern: proficiency was 16 to 21 percentage points below the state in all three reported school-grade results.
The schools’ strongest results are in different subjects. At Greysbranch, fifth-grade editing and mechanics was 57%, 9 points above the state, and fourth-grade reading was 57%, 7 points above. The high school’s standout was eleventh-grade writing at 51%, 4 points above the state. Math was the lowest relative result: Greysbranch was 20 points below the state in fourth grade and 21 points below in fifth grade; the high school was 16 points below in tenth grade. Greysbranch also exceeded district results in 7 of its 9 reportable grade-subject results, while the high school matched district results in all 6.
Greysbranch’s results have shifted notably: its average state-relative gap across the same 9 results moved from 7 points above the state in 2024–2025 to 6 points below in 2025–2026; all 9 gaps worsened. The high school’s average gap moved from 2 points below to 5 points below. SchoolDigger rankings also declined: Greysbranch went from the 62nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 35th in 2025–2026, and the high school from the 47th to the 37th. The high school combines a 100% graduation rate with 32% chronic absenteeism, compared with 24% statewide. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 54% at Greysbranch and 57% at the high school; student-teacher ratios were 12.7 and 15.5, respectively. Because the schools serve different grades, their test percentages are not direct head-to-head comparisons.
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