Summary:
Zip code 41539 has one elementary school, Kimper Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8 with 120 students in Pike County. Its latest reported 2025–2026 results are mixed: fifth-grade writing is above the state result, while reading, social studies, and editing and mechanics are below. The clearest concern is fifth-grade editing and mechanics, at 30% compared with 48% statewide, an 18-point gap.
Kimper is the only school in this list, so there is no local school-to-school leader or trailer. Among its reported current results, fifth-grade writing stands out positively at 40%, 5 points above the state’s 35%; fifth-grade editing and mechanics is the weakest relative result at 30%, 18 points below the state. Fifth-grade reading is 40% versus 51% statewide, while third-grade reading is 47% versus 49%, and fifth-grade social studies is 30% versus 38%. The other 15 of 20 listed current test results are suppressed, so they cannot be used to compare performance.
The one same-grade, same-subject comparison across the two years shows third-grade reading unchanged at 47% at Kimper from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while the state rose from 47% to 49%. Earlier results varied considerably: eighth-grade writing was 73%, 24 points above the state, while fourth-grade reading was 36%, 14 points below. SchoolDigger’s overall ranking fell from the 71st percentile in 2023–2024 to the 32nd percentile in 2025–2026, a 39-point decline; this is a change in relative rank, not a direct measure of score change. The student-teacher ratio was 10.9 in 2024–2025, and 88% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures describe the school’s context, not the cause of its results.
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