Audubon Elementary School

Audubon Elementary School is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Owensboro, Kentucky, one of the schools within Daviess County, with 408 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

Demographically, Audubon Elementary School logs that the largest single group is White, at 66% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Audubon Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 49.2%, a residual of +7.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Daviess County put median household income runs about $68,214, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Audubon Elementary School is one of 37 public schools in Daviess County (combined enrollment of about 15,983 students).

Nearest neighbor: Valley High School, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Audubon Elementary School comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 490 students in 2018 compared to 408 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 66%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.