Brenda Cowan Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Lexington, Kentucky, Brenda Cowan Elementary enrolls 586 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Fayette County. That puts it 39% above the typical public school in Kentucky, which averages around 421 students.

Fayette County comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 42,138 students; Brenda Cowan Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Brenda Cowan Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 20% Black, 16% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Fayette County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.4:1, putting Brenda Cowan Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Brenda Cowan Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.3%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -0.6 points.

In the broader community, census data for Fayette County shows median household earnings sit near $69,479, about 48% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Fayette County's 81 public schools (combined enrollment of about 42,142 students), Brenda Cowan Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Edythe Jones Hayes Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brenda Cowan Elementary. On composite proficiency, Brenda Cowan Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

Brenda Cowan Elementary operates from a rural location.

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