Barry Hahn Primary School

Set in Brandenburg, Kentucky, Barry Hahn Primary School is a roomy elementary-level community, part of Meade County. It teaches 807 students across grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Kentucky's public schools average about 421 students each, so Barry Hahn Primary School sits 92% above that benchmark.

Within Meade County, which oversees 9 schools and 4,921 students, Barry Hahn Primary School is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Barry Hahn Primary School lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Meade County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.4:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Barry Hahn Primary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.4%, the actual is 61.5%, a residual of +12.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Meade County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,355 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Meade County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,001 students), of which Barry Hahn Primary School is one.

The closest other public school is David T. Wilson Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Barry Hahn Primary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.9%.

Barry Hahn Primary School operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 791 students in 2018 compared to 807 in 2025. Class-load math has loosened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Barry Hahn Primary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.