Barbourville City School

Set in Barbourville, Kentucky, Barbourville City School is a large combined-grade school, operated by Barbourville Independent. It works with 755 students across grades pre-K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 202 students per school, that is 274% bigger than typical.

Within Barbourville Independent, which oversees 2 schools and 757 students, Barbourville City School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Barbourville City School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). The remainder reads as 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Knox County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Barbourville City School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.6%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of +12.4 points.

In the area at large, census data for Knox County shows the typical household earns roughly $32,527 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 33%. In all, Knox County runs 20 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,276 students), of which Barbourville City School is one.

The closest other public school is Barbourville Learning Center, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Barbourville City School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barbourville City School has grew 11%, going from 682 students in 2018 to 755 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.