Summary:
Zip code 42039 has one listed school, Fancy Farm Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 271 students in Graves County. With no second school for a local head-to-head comparison, the clearest picture comes from state and district benchmarks. In 2025–2026, Fancy Farm exceeded state proficiency in 10 of 12 reported grade-and-subject results—its most important overall finding for families.
Fourth grade was a standout: proficiency was 76% in math, 33 percentage points above the state, and 81% in reading, 31 points above. Sixth-grade reading was also 31 points above the state (85% versus 54%), and fourth-grade science was 22 points higher (62% versus 40%). But the school was not consistently ahead of its district: it exceeded district results in only four of 12 comparisons, by 1 point in fourth-grade math and by 1, 3, and 2 points in fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade reading. Fifth-grade writing was the clearest weakness, at 23%—12 points below the state and 35 below the district.
Results across the ten grade-subject measures available in both years weakened overall: Fancy Farm’s average fell from 63% in 2024–2025 to 55% in 2025–2026, while its average advantage over the state narrowed from 19 to 11 points. Gains in fourth-grade math, fourth-grade reading, and science were outweighed by declines in seven measures, including fifth-grade writing, which fell 28 points, and editing and mechanics, which fell 32. SchoolDigger gives Fancy Farm four stars and ranks it 164th of 684 Kentucky elementary schools, in the 76th percentile; its rank had improved to 82nd in 2024–2025 before declining. The student-teacher ratio was 13.8 in 2024–2025, and 53% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that school year—contextual measures, not explanations of test results.
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