Summary:
ZIP code 42743 has one high school, Green County High School, serving grades 9–12 with 490 students. The school’s 2025–2026 graduation rate was 97%, compared with 94% statewide, and its dropout rate was 0%, versus 1% statewide. Because the ZIP contains only one listed high school, there is no school-to-school comparison. The clearest overall finding is that Green County scored above Kentucky in all six reported subjects in 2025–2026.
Writing is the school’s strongest standout: 76% of students were proficient, 29 percentage points above the state’s 47%. Editing and mechanics was also notably higher, at 52% compared with 40% statewide, a 12-point advantage. The lowest result was science, at 28%, though that was still 5 points above the state’s 23%. Reading had the narrowest lead: 50% versus 49%. Mathematics was 43% versus 40%, and social studies was 41% versus 37%. Across the six subjects, Green County’s equal-weighted average was 48%, compared with 39% statewide, a 9-point gap.
Results improved overall relative to the prior year, but the pattern differed by subject. The average school–state gap across the six subjects grew from 4 points in 2024–2025 to 9 points in 2025–2026: writing rose 19 points to 76%, while science, social studies, and editing and mechanics each gained 9 to 11 points. Mathematics fell 15 points, from 58% to 43%, and reading declined 3 points, from 53% to 50%. SchoolDigger ranked Green County 57th of 262 schools, in the 78th percentile, in 2025–2026—up from 83rd of 254, in the 67th percentile, the year before, but below its 2023–2024 ranking of 28th of 290, in the 90th percentile. Other context figures include a 15.3 student–teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and 58% free/reduced lunch eligible in that school year. Chronic absenteeism was 21%, below the state’s 24% but above the Green County district’s 16%.
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