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Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 42039


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271
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Top rankedFancy Farm Elementary School164th of 684 Kentucky elementary schools
Summary:

ZIP code 42039 has one listed elementary school, Fancy Farm Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 6 with 271 students. Its clearest overall strength is reading: the school averaged 73% proficient across grades 3–6 in 2025–2026, compared with 51% statewide, an advantage of 22 percentage points.

The strongest individual results were fourth-grade math, with 76% proficient versus 43% statewide, and fourth- and sixth-grade reading, with 81% and 85% proficient versus 50% and 54%. Fifth-grade writing was the clearest weakness: 23% were proficient, 12 points below the state’s 35%; fifth-grade editing and mechanics was also below the state, at 42% versus 48%. Results were above the state in every tested math and reading grade, but not in every subject. Because only one school is listed for this ZIP code, comparisons are with state results rather than local school-to-school rankings.

Results changed in different directions across grades and subjects: fourth-grade science rose from 39% in 2024–2025 to 62% in 2025–2026, while fifth-grade writing fell from 51% to 23% and editing and mechanics fell from 74% to 42%. SchoolDigger ranked Fancy Farm 109th of 685 schools in 2023–2024, 82nd of 685 in 2024–2025, and 164th of 684 in 2025–2026. For context, its student-teacher ratio was 13.8 in 2024–2025, and 53% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year. Chronic absenteeism was 9% in 2025–2026, below the district’s 11% and the state’s 24%.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Kentucky Department of Education.

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