Schools in Zip Code 42129

The three public schools in ZIP code 42129, in Metcalfe County, serve students from prekindergarten through grade 12, with enrollments from 310 to 648. The clearest area-wide pattern in 2025–2026 is that mathematics and reading results were below state results on average: about 9 points lower in each subject. Social studies and editing and mechanics were slight relative strengths, averaging about 1 point above the state in each.

Metcalfe County High School had the strongest descriptive state-relative profile, averaging 2 points below state results across its listed tests, compared with 4 points below at Metcalfe County Middle School and 9 points below at Metcalfe County Elementary School. The high school was above the state in four of six results, led by 11th-grade science at 33% proficient versus 23% statewide; its 10th-grade math result was 18% versus 40%. The middle school was above the state in 8th-grade social studies and editing and mechanics by 5 and 6 points. The elementary school was below the state in all 10 results, with its largest gap in 5th-grade writing: 13% versus 35%. These averages combine different grade spans and subjects, so they offer broad context rather than like-for-like school ratings.

Recent trends also differ: average state-relative results improved by about 5 points per matched test at the high school and 3 points at the middle school, while the elementary school moved about 2 points farther below the state. SchoolDigger percentile rankings rose from 28 to 54 at the high school and 18 to 38 at the middle school across the three reported years, while the elementary school went from 26 to 25. The high school’s 95% graduation rate was above the 94% state rate, but its 43% chronic absenteeism was also notably high—about 20 points above the state. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 72% at the high school, 77% at the middle school, and 76% at the elementary school; student–teacher ratios ranged from 14.4 to 16.3.