Summary:
The 41840 zip code area is home to a single public middle school, Fleming Neon Middle School, which serves grades 6-8 and is part of the Letcher County school district. While the school has maintained a consistent 3-star rating from SchoolDigger over the past few years, its academic performance is somewhat mixed, with strengths in reading proficiency but more variable results in other subject areas like mathematics.
Fleming Neon Middle School faces some socioeconomic challenges, with a high percentage of students (59.85%) receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a significant level of economic disadvantage among the student population. This factor may contribute to the school's high chronic absenteeism rate of 25.0% in the 2024-2025 school year. Despite these challenges, the school's spending per student is relatively high at $26,171 for the 2023-2024 school year, and its student-teacher ratio of 13.8 is lower than the state average, suggesting smaller class sizes.
Compared to the Letcher County district and the state of Kentucky, Fleming Neon Middle School generally outperforms the district in academic proficiency but often lags behind the state-level performance. This suggests that the school may need to look to statewide best practices and strategies to improve its overall academic standing and address the needs of its economically disadvantaged student population more effectively.
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