Booker T Washington Elementary School

Set in Lexington, Kentucky, Booker T Washington Elementary School is an average-sized elementary school, operated by Fayette County. It hosts 377 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Fayette County comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 42,138 students; Booker T Washington Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Booker T Washington Elementary School lists that the most-represented group is Black (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 35% Hispanic, 7% White, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Booker T Washington Elementary School records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.5:1. The state averages around 15.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fayette County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Booker T Washington Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.7%; this one delivers 26.2%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Fayette County indicate median household earnings sit near $69,479, 48% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Booker T Washington Elementary School is one of 81 public schools in Fayette County (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students).

Fayette County Learning Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Booker T Washington Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Booker T Washington Elementary School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 34.2%.

Booker T Washington Elementary School operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Booker T Washington Elementary School has ticked up 7%, going from 353 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 44% to 50% across the same window.

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