Apollo High School

Apollo High School is one of the expansive high schools in Owensboro, Kentucky, one of the schools within Daviess County, with 1,265 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 127% bigger than the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 558 students.

Daviess County comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 10,948 students; Apollo High School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Apollo High School reports that 73% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 10% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Apollo High School shows 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.2:1. The state averages about 16.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Apollo High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.5%.

In the area at large, Daviess County reports that median household earnings sit near $68,214, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Daviess County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students), of which Apollo High School is one.

Heritage Park High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Apollo High School comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.3%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 1,405 students in 2018 compared to 1,265 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

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