Summary:
Zip code 42330 has one listed school, Central City Elementary, serving 406 students in PK–5 in Muhlenberg County. Its chronic absenteeism rate was 23% in 2025–2026, lower than the district’s 25% and the state’s 24%. The most important academic finding is that Central City was below the state in all ten reported subject-and-grade results, with the largest gap in fourth-grade math.
Because Central City is the only listed school, there is no other school in the zip code to identify as a top or bottom performer. Against state results, reading was its most competitive subject on average: 42% across grades 3–5, compared with 50% statewide. Math was the weakest average: 26% versus 43%. Results differed sharply by grade: fifth-grade reading was just 1 point below the state rate (50% versus 51%), while fourth-grade math was 23 points below (20% versus 43%). Central City also exceeded district results in three of ten comparisons, including fifth-grade reading (50% versus 47%) and fifth-grade math (37% versus 34%); it remained below the state in each.
Results changed substantially by grade from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: fifth-grade reading rose 17 points and fifth-grade math rose 12, while fourth-grade math fell 23 points and third-grade reading fell 10. SchoolDigger ranked the school 548th of 684 Kentucky schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 20th percentile with one star; its percentile ranking rose from 18th in 2023–2024 to 23rd in 2024–2025 before slipping to 20th. Context figures include a student–teacher ratio of 14.4 in 2024–2025 and 74% free/reduced lunch eligible that year. With only one school listed, families cannot use these data to compare schools within the zip code.
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