A M Yealey Elementary School

A M Yealey Elementary School is an average-sized elementary-level community in Florence, Kentucky, overseen by Boone County. The school instructs 534 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Within Boone County, which oversees 27 schools and 20,514 students, A M Yealey Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, A M Yealey Elementary School records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 83% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting A M Yealey Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, A M Yealey Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.5%, the actual is 43.0%, a residual of -5.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Boone County indicate the typical household earns roughly $99,414 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Boone County runs 34 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,394 students), of which A M Yealey Elementary School is one.

Ockerman Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, A M Yealey Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.4%.

A M Yealey Elementary School operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A M Yealey Elementary School has declined 6%, going from 566 students in 2018 to 534 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 82% to 68%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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