Breckinridge County Middle School

Located at 1877 E. Highway 60, in Harned, Kentucky, Breckinridge County Middle School is a reasonably sized intermediate school that educates 532 students (grades 6 through 8), one of the schools within Breckinridge County.

Breckinridge County Middle School is one of 6 schools operated by Breckinridge County, a district that enrolls 2,677 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Breckinridge County Middle School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest breaks down as 5% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Breckinridge County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 61% of students at Breckinridge County Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Breckinridge County Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.5%; this one delivers 37.7%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Breckinridge County indicate the typical household earns roughly $55,843 per year, roughly 14% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 16% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Breckinridge County's 9 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,362 students), Breckinridge County Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Breckinridge County High School, around 0.2 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Breckinridge County Middle School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 15%: 625 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 in 2025.

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