Summary:
Zip code 41311 has one listed high school, Lee County Middle High School, serving grades 6–12 and enrolling 422 students. Since there is no other school in the list, families have one local high-school option rather than a choice among schools in the area. The most important concern is the combination of high chronic absenteeism and below-state proficiency: in 2025–26, chronic absenteeism was 42% at the school versus 24% statewide, and all 12 reported subject-and-grade results were below Kentucky’s, by 1 to 21 points.
There is no local leader or trailer to compare, but grade 10 is a relative bright spot and reading in grades 6 and 7 is the clearest weak spot. In 2025–26, grade 10 proficiency was 39% in math, 1 point below the state, and 44% in reading, 5 points below. By contrast, grade 6 reading was 33%, 21 points below Kentucky, and grade 7 reading was 30%, 20 points below. Across four reported grades, reading averaged 33% at the school versus 48% statewide, a 16-point shortfall; math averaged 31% versus 40%, a 9-point shortfall. Graduation was a positive measure: the school reported 100% in 2025–26, compared with 94% statewide.
Results declined overall across the 11 subject-and-grade comparisons available in both years, though grade 10 improved sharply. The school average fell from 32% in 2024–25 to 31% in 2025–26; eight results declined, two rose, and one was unchanged. Grade 10 math rose 16 points and reading rose 19 points, while the broader matched-results trend moved downward. SchoolDigger ranked the school 173rd of 262, at the 34th percentile in 2025–26, compared with the 15th percentile in 2024–25 and 29th in 2023–24. For context, its student–teacher ratio was 14.5 in 2024–25, and 87% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school, not the reason for its results. Grade-level results compare different cohorts, rather than following the same students over time.
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