Summary:
Zip code 41777 has one listed school, Hayes Lewis Elementary School, serving pre-K through grade 8 with 125 students in Leslie County. Its 2025–2026 results vary substantially by subject: math in grades 7 and 8 was well above the state, while several reading, science, writing, and editing results fell below it. The clearest takeaway is that middle-grade math is a strength, but it does not represent performance across all subjects: only 4 of 12 reported grade-subject results were above the state, and the average gap across them was 4 points below.
There is no school-to-school leader or laggard to compare because Hayes Lewis is the only school listed. Its strongest state comparisons were grade 7 math at 57% versus 39% statewide, and grade 8 math at 58% versus 39%—18 and 19 points higher. Results were much lower in some other areas: grade 3 reading was 39%, 10 points below the state and 31 below the district; grade 4 science was 25%, 15 points below the state and 31 below the district. Grade 8 results also ranged from 58% in math to 25% in editing and mechanics, a 33-point spread.
Changes over time were mixed rather than showing a clear overall shift. Across nine grade-and-subject comparisons available in both years, the average gap from the state was about 0 points in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, although individual results moved sharply: grade 3 reading went from 14 points above the state to 10 below, while grade 8 reading went from 11 below to 2 above. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile fell from the 81st percentile in 2022–2023 to the 25th in 2025–2026, with its rank moving from 130 of 687 to 510 of 684. As context, in 2024–2025, 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible and the student–teacher ratio was 12.9; in 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 50%, compared with 45% in the district and 24% statewide. These measures describe the school but do not explain its test results.
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