Summary:
Elementary schools in ZIP code 42129 are represented by one school, Metcalfe County Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 5 with 648 students. With no other school in the area list, it is not possible to compare local schools; the useful performance reference is Kentucky’s results for the same subjects and grades. In 2025–2026, the school was below the state in all ten reported subject-grade comparisons, with results ranging from 1 to 22 percentage points behind.
The school’s strongest 2025–2026 result was third-grade reading: 43%, compared with 49% statewide. Mathematics was its strongest subject relative to the state, averaging 39% across grades 3–5 versus 43% statewide, a 4-point gap. The clearest weak spot was fifth-grade writing, at 13% compared with 35% statewide—the largest shortfall, at 22 points. Reading averaged 40% versus 50% statewide, while the single reported results for grade 4 science, grade 5 social studies, and grade 5 editing and mechanics were 11, 8, and 11 points below state results, respectively.
Results changed unevenly from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: third-grade math rose 12 points and third-grade reading rose 11, while fourth-grade reading fell 15 points, from 1 point above the state to 14 points below. Across all ten results, the school’s average fell from about 37% to 35%, while the state average stayed around 44%; the average gap widened by about 2 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school in the 26th percentile in 2023–2024, 31st in 2024–2025, and 25th in 2025–2026 (512 of 684 schools). Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 14.4 in 2024–2025 and 76% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 24.3%, versus 23.5% statewide and 32% in the district.
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