Summary:
ZIP code 42748 has one high school, LaRue County High School, serving grades 9–12 with 754 students. With no other high school in the ZIP code, the latest results are best understood through comparisons with Kentucky. The clearest overall finding is that the school’s average across six subjects matched the state average in 2025–2026: 39% proficient for both.
The school’s strongest results compared with the state were in writing and social studies: 55% versus 47% in writing, and 42% versus 37% in social studies in 2025–2026. Math and science were the clearest weaknesses: 32% versus 40% in math, and 19% versus 23% in science. Reading was 48%, one point below the state, while editing and mechanics matched the state at 40%. Beyond test results, the school reported a 99% graduation rate, about 5 points above Kentucky’s 94%, and a 0% dropout rate compared with 1% statewide.
Results declined in all six subjects from the prior year, especially math, down 11 points, and writing, down 9 points. The school’s six-subject average fell from 45% in 2024–2025, when it was 6 points above the state average, to a tie with the state in 2025–2026. SchoolDigger’s ranking also shifted from 68th of 254 schools, at the 73rd percentile, in 2024–2025 to 123rd of 262, at the 53rd percentile, in 2025–2026. Context measures include a student-teacher ratio of 16.7 and 57% free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these describe the school but do not explain its results. Chronic absenteeism was 23% in 2025–2026, close to the state’s 24% but 7 points above the LaRue County district rate of 16%.
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