Summary:
Zip code 41168 has one listed school, Star Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 124 students. With no other school in the list, families can compare Star’s results with Carter County and Kentucky, but not with another school in the zip code. The most notable recent result is fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics: Star scored 75% in 2025–2026, 27 percentage points above the state.
Star’s strongest 2025–2026 comparisons were fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics (75%, versus 48% statewide and 52% in the district), third-grade Reading (65%, 16 points above the state’s 49%), and fifth-grade Mathematics (56%, 13 points above the state’s 43%). Results were less strong in fourth-grade Mathematics, where Star’s 42% was 1 point below the state, and fifth-grade Social Studies, where its 38% matched the state. In 2024–2025, Star’s three reported Mathematics grades averaged 21 points above the state; its three Reading grades averaged 6 points above. These results show strengths in several areas, but no single score captures performance across grades and subjects.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: fifth-grade Editing and Mechanics rose 31 points, while fourth-grade Mathematics fell 25 points. Fifth-grade Mathematics gained 12 points and third-grade Reading gained 6, while fifth-grade Social Studies declined 6 points. SchoolDigger ranked Star 173rd of 684 schools, in the 75th percentile, with four stars for 2025–2026; its rank was 176th in 2024–2025 and 80th in 2023–2024. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 15.4 in 2024–2025 and 51% free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism was 18% in 2025–2026, below the state’s 24% and the district’s 34%. Because this list has only one school, it cannot show how Star compares with other local schools.
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