Argillite Elementary School

Argillite Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Argillite, Kentucky, overseen by Greenup County, with 216 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 421 students per school, that is 49% below typical.

Greenup County comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 2,509 students; Argillite Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Argillite Elementary School reports that 94% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Greenup County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Argillite Elementary School reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. Roughly 70% of students at Argillite Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Greenup County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Argillite Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.1%, the actual is 26.4%, a residual of -12.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Greenup County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $60,751 per year, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Greenup County's 17 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,653 students), Argillite Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Wurtland Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Argillite Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.0%.

Argillite Elementary School operates from a countryside location.

Looking at the recent track record. Argillite Elementary School's enrollment has decreased 25% since 2018, when it stood at 288 (now 216). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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