Summary:
The 41564 zip code is home to a single standout elementary school, Bevins Elementary School, which serves grades PK-5 and has a total enrollment of 236 students. Bevins Elementary is part of the Pike County School District, which is ranked 26 out of 157 districts in Kentucky and has a 4-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Bevins Elementary School has demonstrated consistently strong academic performance, with students scoring above the state and district averages in several subject areas on the Kentucky State Assessments (KSA). In the 2024-2025 school year, the school had particularly high proficiency rates in Mathematics (50-82% proficient or better) and Social Studies (80% proficient or better). However, the school's reading proficiency rates were more mixed, ranging from 39% to 64% proficient or better across grade levels. Despite these academic successes, Bevins Elementary School faces challenges, with a higher-than-average chronic absenteeism rate of 25.0% in the 2024-2025 school year.
The school's high percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, at 73.73% in the 2023-2024 school year, suggests that the school serves a population with significant socioeconomic challenges. To support its students, the school has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 14.7 and a high per-student spending of $19,283 in the 2023-2024 school year. These investments in resources may be a contributing factor to the school's strong academic performance, which has consistently placed it in the top 25% of Kentucky elementary schools in recent years.
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