Summary:
Zip code 42437 has one listed elementary school, Morganfield Elementary School, serving kindergarten through grade 5 in the Union County district, with 328 students. The most important finding is that its average across six comparable grade-and-subject results moved farther below the state average, from 18 points behind in 2024–2025 to 24 points behind in 2025–2026.
There is no meaningful top-versus-bottom school comparison in this area because Morganfield is the only school listed. In its latest reported results, fourth-grade math was closest to the state figure, at 29% versus 43% (14 points lower), while fifth-grade reading was furthest behind, at 18% versus 51% (33 points lower). All six reported school results were below the state, and each was also below the district result, by 2 to 20 points. The other state gaps were 30 points for fifth-grade math, 21 for fourth-grade reading, 19 for fourth-grade science, and 26 for editing and mechanics.
Results were mixed year to year, but declines were more common: fourth-grade math rose from 25% to 29% and fourth-grade reading from 27% to 29%, while the other four matched results fell. SchoolDigger’s ranking also moved from 591st of 685 schools in 2023–2024 to 651st of 684 in 2025–2026; its reported percentile declined from 14 to 5, and its star rating from 1 to 0. Chronic absenteeism was lower than the district and state rates in 2025–2026: 19% at Morganfield versus 23% and 24%. As context, 76% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 10.3 that year.
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