Summary:
ZIP code 41746 has one school, Robert W Combs Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through eighth grade and enrolling 325 students in Perry County. With no other schools in the ZIP code, families can compare its reported results with Kentucky’s, but not with nearby schools in the ZIP. Most importantly, in 2025–2026 the school was below the state in all 13 reported grade-and-subject comparisons, by 1 to 23 percentage points.
There is no school-to-school leader or trailer; within the school’s reported results, seventh-grade reading was highest at 48%, close to Kentucky’s 50%. The lowest results were 20% in fifth-grade math and 20% in fifth-grade social studies, compared with 43% and 38% statewide, respectively. Fifth-grade editing and mechanics was also low at 25%, 23 points below the state’s 48%. The smallest gaps were in eighth-grade social studies, at 38% versus 39%, and seventh-grade reading, at 48% versus 50%. These results show meaningful variation by grade and subject, rather than a consistent level across every test.
Results moved in different directions over time. Across 13 grade-and-subject comparisons available in both years, the average gap from the state widened by about 3 points, from 10 points below in 2024–2025 to 12 points below in 2025–2026. Math improved in the matched grades, while eighth-grade writing fell 18 points, from 56% to 38%; reading also varied by grade, rising 20 points in seventh grade but falling 19 in eighth. SchoolDigger’s ranking moved from 557 of 685 schools (19th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 611 of 684 (11th percentile) in 2025–2026. Other context includes a student-teacher ratio of 13.2 in 2024–2025 and 84% free/reduced lunch eligible that year; these figures do not explain the test results. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 40%, compared with 24% statewide.
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