Summary:
Zip code 41520 has one listed elementary school, Dorton Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 and enrolling 263 students. Its 2025–2026 results show strengths in several tested subjects, but performance varies substantially by grade. The most important concern is 7th grade: mathematics proficiency is 23%, compared with 39% statewide and 48% in Pike County; reading is 41%, versus 50% statewide and 66% in the district.
Because Dorton is the only school listed, there is no top or bottom school to compare, but its results have clear high and low points. The strongest reported results are 5th-grade Editing and Mechanics at 80%—12 points above the district and 32 above the state—and 4th-grade Science at 70%, 9 points above the district and 30 above the state. Across reported grades, averages are also above Kentucky’s in Editing and Mechanics (69% versus 45%), Writing (59% versus 42%), and Social Studies (55% versus 39%). Mathematics and reading averages are closer to the state: 45% versus 42% in mathematics, and 50% versus 48% in reading. The 7th-grade mathematics and reading results are each 25 points below the district.
Comparable results show modest overall improvement, though changes differ by subject and grade: across 14 subject-and-grade pairs, Dorton’s average rose from 51% to 53% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while the state average fell from 44% to 43%; the average school–state gap widened from 7 to 10 points. Notable exceptions include a 25-point increase in 5th-grade Editing and Mechanics and an 11-point decline in 7th-grade mathematics. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 13.1 in 2024–2025 and 71% of students free/reduced lunch eligible that year; chronic absenteeism was 39% in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide. Because this is the only school listed and some grade-level results are state-suppressed, the data cannot support school-to-school comparisons or complete grade-by-grade comparisons.
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